TY - JOUR JF - frooyesh JO - Rooyesh VL - 8 IS - 12 PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/2/01 TI - Culture and Gender in Nonverbal Communication TT - فرهنگ و جنسیت در ارتباط غیر کلامی N2 - Nonverbal behavior plays an important role in the interpersonal relationships of people who are from different countries and different sex. This cross-cultural study aims to investigate the knowledge of nonverbal cues in Iranian and Italian people taking into account the gender differences as well. a non-verbal questionnaire was utilized in order to evaluate the knowledge of nonverbal cues in samples of 360 Italian and 360 Iranian participants. The results exposed that, the Italian group got a higher rating in nonverbal cues than Iranian one, which means different cultural backgrounds affect the individuals’ knowledge of non-verbal cues, and also in the Iranian group, the women received higher rates than the men, indicating that the women have more non-verbal decoding accuracy compared to the men. SP - 123 EP - 130 AU - Zand, Somayeh AU - Baradaran, Majid AU - Najafi, Reza AU - Maleki, Atefeh AU - Golbazi Mahdipour, Ali AD - Islamic Azad University of rasht KW - nonverbal communication KW - Cultural differences KW - Nonverbal cues KW - Gender differences. UR - http://frooyesh.ir/article-1-1867-en.html ER -