Don't listen to the posts recommending this class!!! You WILL regret it!!! Yes, the material is not difficult at all (which is what makes this class so frustrating) however, there is SO MUCH reading and memorizing you will spend COUNTLESS hours studying for the exams!!! The outside reading material is barely covered in class so you have to read EVERYTHING to get a good grade. Additionally, the exams are extremely ambiguous and poorly written!!! They are all short answer and essay and it is difficult to know what she is looking for in most of the questions. Prof. Johnson tries to make it so much harder than the class really should be. I ended up with a B but I had to spend so much time studying for this class, my other grades/classes suffered. Also, when the class began it was completely full, including the waiting list. By the end of the second midterm (which there are three of) almost 15% of the class had dropped! If you do decide to take this class and you are not a communications major I would recommend taking it for a pass/fail grade otherwise, avoid it at all costs!!

I took Prof. Johnsons Body Language class as well as her Negotiation class and I thoroughly enjoyed my experience in both classes. I believe the other evaluation below me is biased and unfair to her.

I found her lectures to be structured and informative. She posted slides every week after class and used multimedia to enhance her presentations. She presented many classic studies in addition to her own research, and did her best to make the material relevant.

Also, I visited her during office hours before both midterms and she was very helpful. She holds a review session for all students in her office hours before the midterms and many students shows up. She always stayed after class to talk to students and even offered students to participate in her research. As a grader, she is totally fair. You will be rewarded with an A in the class if you study.

I would highly recommend taking both classes from Prof. Johnson. I've never written a review on Bruinwalk before, but really felt I had to do so for Prof Johnson because of the unfair review she was given by another student.

I do not know how anyone can do poorly in her class. I mean, you really have to try hard to get a poor grade.

She provides the most detailed slides I have ever seen. They are actually fun to look at, and they really help you study for the exam.

I recorded all of her lectures, but never relisted to any of them. Just pay attention in class and listen for key information.

Basically, ALL she does is present other people's research and her own, and you get tested on that. I actually really enjoyed that and wish more classes did this instead of having you find out the exact same information in a boring fashion in a textbook.

You actually really do need the book for her class. When she says she takes 50% from class and 50% from the book, she means it. And the 50% from the book were usually NOT overlapped with the class. So read it. It's actually very interesting stuff. I remember people putting themselves in groups and distributing the reading amongst each other- I personally didn't do that, but I think it would be a good idea!

She's a great lecturer, very engaging, and exciting!

I never went to office hours because it conflicted with my schedule, but she is extremely approachable, and you will find that you will actually WANT to ask questions in this class.

That being said, the tests are written pretty poorly and are often extremely ambiguous. (I got an A on both of them, but still found them to be too vague). So you will need to study thoroughly.

I think it's hard for her to write tests because all you are tested on (aside from the 50% that comes from the reading) are experiments, so she tries really hard to form a question without letting you know which experiment she wants you to describe. So just be prepared for that.

One more thing about the tests- she curves them very generously, and she tells her graders to be extremely lenient, and they truly are.

This class is so easy. You will actually find that it is very easy to pay attention because the stuff is just so interesting. DO YOUR READING THOUGH!

Oh, and best of all- you take 3 tests, and she drops your lowest score. It doesn't get any better than that. If you plan it right, that's one lest test you have to study for during finals.

Very interesting class and the professor is always willing to provide alternative explanations to her slides if the class doesn't get it. She is always available during office hours and grades very fair. Would take again!

The textbook can be pricey but you NEED it for the class. It is easy to understand and appears on about 40% of the test.

Very interesting class and the professor is always willing to provide alternative explanations to her slides if the class doesn't get it. She is always available during office hours and grades very fair. Would take again!
The textbook can be pricey but you NEED it for the class. It is easy to understand and appears on about 40% of the test.

Selling Non-Verbal Communication and Body Language by Kerri Johnson
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It bugs me that students have to buy professor's textbook for a class, especially when it is not an original work and textbooks are not cheap... So for all y'all who don't want to spend money on a textbook which is a collection of research papers, thank me later.

Here are all the readings in the book. Just look them up in the Google scholar and you are golden.

1)Cappella, J. N. (1991). The biological origins of automated patterns of human interaction. Communication Theory, 1(1), 4-35.
2)Patterson, M. L. (1995). Invited article: A parallel process model of nonverbal communication. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 19(1), 3-29.
3)Ambady, N., & Weisbuch, M. (2010). Nonverbal behavior. Handbook of social psychology.
4)Manusov, V., & Trees, A. R. (2002). “Are you kidding me?”: The role of nonverbal cues in the verbal accounting process. Journal of Communication, 52(3), 640-656.
5)Sonnenmoser, M. (2005). Friend or Foe?. Scientific American Mind, 16(1), 78-81.
7)Bodenhausen, G. V., & Peery, D. (2009). Social categorization and stereotyping in vivo: The VUCA challenge. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3(2), 133-151.
8)Weisbuch, M., Pauker, K., & Ambady, N. (2009). The subtle transmission of race bias via televised nonverbal behavior. Science, 326(5960), 1711-1714.
9)Bublitz, N. (2008). A Face in the Crowd. Scientific American Mind, 19(2), 58-65.
10)Thornton, I. M. (2006). Biological Motion: Point-Light Walkers and Beyond.
11)Saunders, D. R., Williamson, D. K., & Troje, N. F. (2010). Gaze patterns during perception of direction and gender from biological motion. Journal of Vision, 10(11), 9-9.
12)Dobbs, D. (2006). A revealing reflection. Scientific American Mind, 17(2), 22-27.
13)Wachsmuth, I. (2006). Gestures offer insight. Scientific American Mind, 17(5), 20-25.
14)Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2004). How social perception can automatically influence behavior. Trends in cognitive sciences, 8(1), 33-39.
15)Morsella, E., Bargh, J. A., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (Eds.). (2009). Oxford handbook of human action (Vol. 2). Oxford University Press.
16)Cook, S. W., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2009). Embodied communication: Speakers’ gestures affect listeners’ actions. Cognition, 113(1), 98-104.
17)melinda winner smile! it could make you happier: making an emotional face 2009
18)Johnson, K. L., & Tassinary, L. G. (2007). Interpersonal metaperception: The importance of compatibility in the aesthetic appreciation of bodily cues. In The Body Beautiful (pp. 159-184). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
19)Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (1999). Facial attractiveness. Trends in cognitive sciences, 3(12), 452-460.
20)Haselton, M. G., Mortezaie, M., Pillsworth, E. G., Bleske-Rechek, A., & Frederick, D. A. (2007). Ovulatory shifts in human female ornamentation: Near ovulation, women dress to impress. Hormones and behavior, 51(1), 40-45.
21)Kulger, J. (2008). The science of romance: Why we love. Time Magazine.
22)Hall, J. A. (1998). How big are nonverbal sex differences? The case of smiling and sensitivity to nonverbal cues. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
23) Brescoll, V., & LaFrance, M. (2004). The correlates and consequences of newspaper reports of research on sex differences. Psychological Science, 15(8), 515-520.
24)Carney, D. R., Hall, J. A., & LeBeau, L. S. (2005). Beliefs about the nonverbal expression of social power. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 29(2), 105-123.
25) Tannen, D. (2010). He said, she said. Scientific American Mind, 21(2), 54-59.
26)Matsumoto, D., Keltner, D., Shiota, M. N., O’Sullivan, M. A. U. R. E. E. N., & Frank, M. (2008). Facial expressions of emotion. Handbook of emotions, 3, 211-234.
27) De Gelder, B. (2006). Towards the neurobiology of emotional body language. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7(3), 242.
28)Young, S. G., & Hugenberg, K. (2010). Mere social categorization modulates identification of facial expressions of emotion. Journal of personality and social psychology, 99(6), 964.
29)Schubert, S. (2006). A look tells all. Scientific American Mind, 17(5), 26-31.
30)Hertenstein, M. J., Verkamp, J. M., Kerestes, A. M., & Holmes, R. M. (2006). The communicative functions of touch in humans, nonhuman primates, and rats: a review and synthesis of the empirical research. Genetic, social, and general psychology monographs, 132(1), 5-94.
31)Hertenstein, M. J., Holmes, R., McCullough, M., & Keltner, D. (2009). The communication of emotion via touch. Emotion, 9(4), 566.
32) Ramachandran, V. S., & Rogers-Ramachandran, D. (2007). Touching illusions. Scientific American Mind, 18(6), 14-16.
33)Cacioppo, J. T., Tassinary, L. G., & Berntson, G. (Eds.). (2007). Handbook of psychophysiology. Cambridge University Press.
34)Blair, J. P., Levine, T. R., & Shaw, A. S. (2010). Content in context improves deception detection accuracy. Human Communication Research, 36(3), 423-442.
35)Kassin, S. M., & Gudjonsson, G. H. (2005). True crimes, false confessions. Scientific American Mind, 16(2), 24-31.
36)Langton, S. R., Watt, R. J., & Bruce, V. (2000). Do the eyes have it? Cues to the direction of social attention. Trends in cognitive sciences, 4(2), 50-59.

Dr. Johnson is so cool and interesting, she conducts her own research some of which is discussed in the course. Basically, you have two midterms and a final all of which are fill in the blank/essay and you can drop your lowest score, as well as three short paper assignments summarizing and analyzing a research study of your choice between 4 articles. The material is so interesting and relatable to real life. Love the professor and the course.

Professor Johnson is an amazing professor. She genuinely wants you to do well and will help you in any way she can. The class itself is composed of small assignments, one exam, and a social psychology experiment. The small assignments were mostly graded on completion. The exam was based purely on lecture slides, although, you could use the book to supplement lecture material. For the experiment, you work in a group of your choice to establish a novel experiment. This class definitely requires time and effort but the ending results are worth it. If you're looking to satisfy the lab requirement, take it with her!

This is an instructor who pretends to teach, but really just uses her class as an opportunity to humble-brag about her research. Not engaging. Rude to students who want extra help outside of class. Only responds to student emails once per week. It is like a burden to be in her class.

I would no recommend this professor unless you are in dire dire straits and would otherwise have to suffer from Suman/Bryant (the two worst in the dept)