Bodily Communication

by Michael Argyle

hardcover with dust jacket

Genres: Psychology

363 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Social psychologist. He is regarded as one of Britain's best known and most productive academic psychologist of the twentieth century. He first read Mathematics, but had to serve in WWII as a navigator in the Royal Air Force, he read Moral Science and Experimental Psychology at Cambridge. From 1950 to 1952 he worked at the Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge, and in 1952 he became lecturer in Social Psychology at Oxford University, where he spent the whole of his academic career, being promoted to Reader in 1969. He was also tutor in psychology at Balliol College and a Founding Fellow of Wolfson College. Throughout his career, he showed strong preferences for experimental methods in social psychology, having little time for alternative approaches such as discourse analysis. Sonia Argyle (1922-1999) was his first wife.

Reviews

[Jamil · Rating 2 out of 5]

I Initially borrowed this book from one of the libraries at uni to read during the 40 minute train rides to and from campus.I found the first half of the book enjoyable and easy to read through, unfortunately the same could be said for the second half. The second half was beginning to become more technical and more scientific providing statistics and numerical results from studies conducted by other researchers who are directly involved in the field which the chapter is focused on. The book then begun to become dull as I was reading "Phantoms in the Brain", which I really enjoyed, this created a comparison as I discovered the genre "popular science" and realized when reading an academic book like this, it felt more like a chore than leisure.