1986 年 34 巻 2 号 p. 120-129
Two experiments were designed to investigate the nonverbal encoding and decoding process in an instructional situation. In experiment one, sixteen university students (listeners) responded individually to both easy and difficult short lectures in a face to face situation. Videotapes of these sessions were then coded and analyzed for nonverbal content. Results showed that high nodding frequency indicated good comprehension with an opposite trend for high blinking frequency. In experiment two, 24 male and 24 female decoders observed 64 videotaped learning sessions which were recorded in experiment 1 and edited. The observers judged the degree of comprehension for each stimulus person only on the basis of nonverbal cues. Correlations between judged levels of comprehension and frequencies of each nonverbal behavior showed that dominance of nonverbal cues differed according to sex of listeners. In the case of male listeners the dominant cue was nodding, while for female listeners the dominant cues were blinking, eye and face direction.