Body Language ALIVE

About the Book

Upon opening our eyes, we see the world of human behavior present itself to us just as we present ourselves to the world. This nonverbal nearly-instantaneous interpretation guides us through our visual, vocal, and verbal interpersonal communicative lives. Body Language Alive: A Garden of Nonverbal Nuggets is a light prelude - sometime humorous - into our world beyond words.

About the Author

Dr. Cody Sweet received her doctor of philosophy degree in psychology and social policy from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She did the first dissertation in the country on nonverbal communication—Nonverbally Reading Initiating Structure and Consideration Constructs of Leader Behavior. Sweet went on to do postdoctoral research at Harvard University, New York Bureau for Movement and Dance Notation and Oxford University. Sweet was fortunate to be the student of trailblazing professors in the nonverbal communication field—Edward Hall, Frederick Erickson, Irmgaard Bartinieff, Michael Argyle, and Desmond Morris. Sweet developed an approach to presenting body language and the other dimensions of nonverbal communication as a faculty member of the speech department at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois. She went on to have an award-winning, four-continent career as a keynote speaker over the following decades. Dr. Sweet created the Milton Bradley board game, Body Language.