The Mother's Voice: Postdictor as Aspects of Her Baby's Behavior

Attitude, voice, and behavior: A repressed affect model of interracial interaction.

“…Milmoe, Rosenthal, Blane, Chafetz, and Wolf (1967) found the rated degree of anger in the content-filtered speech of physicians to be a good postdictor of success in referring alcoholics for further treatment (those with the lowest degree of anger had the most success, and vice versa). A year later, Milmoe, Novey, Kagan, and Rosenthal (1968) found a similar relationship between ratings of anxiety, anger, warmth, and pleasantness in content-filtered speech of mothers and their children's behavior over a 23-month period in associated areas (e.g., fretting, crying, attentiveness to voices). The present study differs from the two discussed above in that non-content-filtered samples of real speech were used (the subjects all said exactly the same thingrecital of a set of instructions).…”

Thin slices of expressive behavior as predictors of interpersonal consequences: A meta-analysis.

“…We chose a cutoff of 5 min rather arbitrarily, in appreciation of the work by Pittenger, Hockett, and Danehy (1960), who elegantly described the richness of information that can be communicated in just 5 min in the context of a diagnostic therapeutic interview. Although subsequent work has shown that a great deal of information can be conveyed in even briefer time periods (e.g., DePaulo & Rosenthal, 1979; Milmoe, Novey, Kagan, & Rosenthal, 1968; Milmoe, Rosenthal, Blane, Chafetz, & Wolf, 1967; Rosenthal, Blanck, & Vannicelli, 1984), we selected 5 min (300 s) as our cutoff for this review.Short behavioral ratings had to be related to some clearly defined external, objective, behavioral criterion or to the criterion of ratings by experts. An external criterion would be the existence of deception.…”

Sex differences in nonverbal and verbal communication with bosses, peers, and subordinates.

“…Communicative behavior, both nonverbal and verbal, has been shown to reflect differences in the relative status of the speaker and the addressee (Argyle, Salter, Nicholson, Williams, & Burgess, 1970;Brown & Ford, 1964). Nonverbal communication in particular has been found to play an important role in the forming of impressions about traits and attributes of others (Scherer, London, & Wolf, 1973) and in influencing the behavior of those who read the nonverbal cues (Milmoe, Novey, Kagan, & Rosenthal, 1974;Milmoe, Rosenthal, Blane, Chafetz, & Wolf, 1974;Rosenthal, 1981). Yet the nonverbal behavior of managers in their interactions at work remains largely unexamined.…”