Mehrabian’s 1967 studies examined judgments of liking or disliking from simplified conflicting cues. They compared verbal with vocal information and facial with vocal expression in separate experiments. Their useful lesson concerns incongruence and clarification, while channel weights do not quantify all meaning or reveal a speaker’s true attitude.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryEffects, Biases & Phenomena
- DomainConversation & Relationships
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Effects, Biases & Phenomena
Identifies a bounded pattern in judgment, behavior or communication and the conditions under which it appears. Naming the pattern makes a recurring difficulty recognizable; it does not make the pattern inevitable or supply a complete explanation.