Date Approved

2024

Degree Type

Open Access Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department or School

Psychology

Committee Member

Thomas Waltz, PhD, PhD

Committee Member

Claudia Drossel, PhD, PhD

Committee Member

Alexandros Maragakis, PhD

Abstract

This experiment sought to explore whether an interviewer’s body language availability would have any effects on participants’ interactional engagement levels, positivity-negativity of interaction, and their nonverbal synchrony. Six participants answered questions about their well-being during a Zoom interview. Participants were exposed to three Near and three Far video framing conditions alternating every 10 min. Results showed that body language availability did not have reliable effects on the examined nonverbal communication indices. Time, however, did have some significant and close-to-significant effects on certain variables. Treatment reversal graphs showed that body language availability may reliably impact some participants’ responding. However, the rarity and variability of these patterns suggest that these relationships will be unlikely demonstrated in large-n research. The relationship between body language

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