| Abstract: | Presented 67 psychology faculty, graduates, and undergraduates with a silent videotape film of 5 depressed and 5 nondepressed psychiatric patients and asked them to identify which patients appeared depressed on the basis of nonverbal cues alone. Results show that depressed patients maintained eye contact for only about one-fourth of the time that nondepressed patients did. The mouth and angle of neck were also identified as salient nonverbal cues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
