BEST CLASS AT UCLA! Professor Johnson is the best. I highly recommend!

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.

Dr. Johnson is honestly one of my favorite teachers ever. I'm so surprised to read the review that she uses lectures to "brag" about her research. Instead, I see her as incredibly friendly, professional, and engaging. Exactly how I want to lecture when I graduate grad school. Btw she's smart AND pretty too! Which is a doubly wammy ( I think we got some jealousy on our hands).
Anyways, I'm graduating this quarter (and haven't YET finished the class) but I'm guessing that I'll get an A. The class is fair, just the right amount of difficulty, and honestly, Dr. Johnson is great to talk to outside of class. Been going to her office hours all the time and she's incredibly open.
There's 3 Tests, where one can be dropped. Also, 3 assignments that I think help you to be prepared for the real world. Dr. Johnson wants her students to learn and do well and I think it's exemplified through her teaching style and demeanor. If you try and do your best, you will do well.
Very glad to have met her in my last quarter of undergrad!

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.

I have a digital copy of the book for $30
Please email jiwon1115@hotmail.com for detail

Selling Non-Verbal Communication and Body Language by Kerri Johnson
Purchased new and ended up dropping the class so the book is new.
Selling for $150
Call or text 805-890-0003

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)