Ross Buck
Ph. D., Professor of Communication Sciences and Psychology, Dept of Communication Sciences U-1085 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT
06269-1085 860-486-4494
Webpage
fax 860-486-5422
buck@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Membership in Other Divisions:
Interpersonal Communication Division; Health Communication Division;
Political Communication Division
Specific Interests Regarding NVC:
Experience, expression, and nonverbal communication of emotion.
Nonverbal
communication of social/moral emotions: pride-arrogance, guilt-shame,
envy-jealousy, pity-scorn, triumph/humiliation, admiration/resentment,
sympathy/contempt.
Stress-buffering
and health-promoting effects of personal relationships, mediated by
nonverbal emotional communication.
Nonverbal-emotional
communication
in persuasion; charisma.
Emotional
uses and gratifications in media and new communication technology
choices.
Four Selected Publications:
Buck, R. (1st ed. 1976; 2nd ed. 1988).
Human Motivation and Emotion. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 680
pp. Japanese Edition 2002. (Tokyo: Kaneko Shobo Publishing Company).
Buck, R. (1984).
The Communication of Emotion. New York: Guilford Press. Paperback
Edition 1988. Korean Edition 2000. (Seoul: NANAM Publishing Company).
Buck, R. (1999).
The biological affects: A typology.
Psychological Review. 106, 301-336.
Buck R., & Van Lear, C. A. (2002).
Verbal and nonverbal communication: Distinguishing symbolic,
spontaneous, and pseudo-spontaneous nonverbal behavior. Journal of
Communication. 52, 522-541.
