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Product Description Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications demonstrates how knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect how one communicates successfully in the real world. This extensive revision describes nonverbal cues and their desirable and non-desirable functions as well as original tests for measuring and developing nonverbal communication skills. The fourth edition of Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications has been thoroughly updated and draws students into the text through detailed explanations of the latest nonverbal communication research as well as through illustrations using current celebrities, athletes and politicians. From the Back Cover Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications, 4/e Dale Leathers, University of Georgia Michael H. Eaves, Valdosta State University Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications demonstrates how knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect successful communication in the real world. This extensive revision describes nonverbal cues and their desirable and non-desirable functions while offering original tests for measuring and developing nonverbal communication skills. This text draws students into the material through helpful applications of the latest nonverbal communication research and through current celebrity, athlete and politician examples. Significant updates are found in the chapters on tactile communication, personal appearance, political debates, intercultural communication and virtual contexts. The highlight of this rewrite is the cutting-edge scholarship that is seamlessly interwoven throughout the text. FEATURES OF THE FOURTH EDITION: Unique photo quizzes enable students to measure and develop their nonverbal communication skills, creating opportunities for them to apply the content to their own lives. An entire chapter focuses on selling yourself nonverbally in politics and sales, including detailed analyses of George W. Bush, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s nonverbal credibility. The updated information on communicating nonverbally in a foreign culture includes new sections on chronemics (time) and olfactics (odor). The text has been reorganized into 15 chapters, aligning it with the length of a semester to make the content more manageable and course scheduling easier.