- Nonverbal communication
- Gesture
- Tattoo?
- Hair?
To conduct a keyword search, try some of the following search terms (remember to put phrases in quotation marks):
- Body decoration
- Body language
- Body art
- Dance or Dance communication
- Cosmetics
Browsing the library shelves is another good way to find additional resources. Look at the titles in the BF 637.C45 and BF 637.N66 section for relevant sources on nonverbal communication.
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Searching Electronic Resources for Articles, Essays, and eBooks
You will find magazine, journal, and newspaper articles; essays; and full-text ebooks on nonverbal communication topics in the following list of sources. Start with the same search terms that you used to search the library catalog. Some databases will help you narrow your topic or suggest related topics.
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eBooks
NetLibrary provides electronic full-text copies of over 6,000 published print materials.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Suitable for the research needs of all academic disciplines. Limit search to refereed publications to get scholarly journal articles on your controversial topic.
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Search this database for local, national, and international news, business, legal, medical, and government information. Most articles are full-text and from 1985 to the present.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
This provides full-text access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, periodical articles, and web sites to health and medical related information. The information in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Reference Center Academic
This provides full-text access to magazine and scholarly journal articles on health and medical related topics. The information in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
PsycINFO
Access abstracts and citations (no full-text) for articles that deal with the behavioral sciences and mental health. To access the full-text article, check with the OCC Periodicals List in the library to see if OCC Library carries the journal in another database or in print or microfilm for the specific date of the article.
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Searching the Internet for Web Sites
The following Web sites will help you find reliable Internet resources that are of good authority for your research paper or presentation.
Librarians’ Index to the Internet - This site was developed by librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources. The Index is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources that have been selected and evaluated by librarians.
DMOZ Open Directory Project – This human-edited directory of the Web breaks the topics into sub-topics and provides “see also” references.
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Recommended Web Sites
Beauty Check
This site is based on a long-term research project at the Universities of Regensburg and Rostock in Germany. Researchers wanted to discover why certain faces are more attractive than others and the consequences of these perceptions. (Click English Version at the top of the page)
Bodylanguage: The language that everybody speaks
Frank van Marwijk from the Netherlands authors this site with features on nonverbal communication through intonation, posture, touch, and distance and looks at nonverbal communication during the job interview and in situations of love.
Face-to-Face With Change
Implementation of Technology-Enabled Learning for the Nonverbal and Paralinguistic Features of Language. A list of links to resources for nonverbal and paralinguistic language learning. Developed at Northeastern University.
Nonverbal Behavior / Nonverbal Communication Links
Comprehensive list of links on Essentials, Books, Papers, Abstracts, Journals, Videotapes, Online Experiments, and more. The site was created by Jaume Masip at the Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology at the University of Salamanca, Spain.
Nonverbal Library: The Web library on body language
Includes nonverbal books, nonverbal categories, beauty, flirting, emotions, subliminal stimulation and links.
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Web Evaluation
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
A quick and useful guide to help you evaluate the Web pages you find for accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage. From Jim Kapoun’s article "Teaching undergrads WEB evaluation: A guide for library instruction” originally published in the July/August 1998 issue of C&RL News on pages 522-523.
Evaluate Web Pages Tutorial
An online tutorial from the Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener University, Pennsylvania. Note: You will need to install the Flash plug-in in order to view the tutorial.
Citing Your Sources
OCC Library MLA Style Sheet (MLAStyleSheet.pdf) or http://www.mla.org
OCC Library APA Style Sheet (APAStyleSheet.pdf) and http://www.apa.org