Among Aristotle's nonverbal fallacies, what is known as the fallacy of accident, in the simplest cases, amounts to at least a confusion between different senses of verbs for being.
Playwright and actor Morris Panych achieved renown for the nonverbal The Overcoat (1997), 7 Stories (1990), and Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2003).
One hypothesis advanced to account for the greater retentivity of psychomotor behaviour, as compared to that of newly acquired verbal behaviour, is that nonverbal actions are more often overlearned and are less susceptible to proactive interference (i.e., competition arising from things learned in the past).
Research has been directed to how social perception is affected by cultural stereotypes (e.g., racial prejudice), by inferences from different verbal and nonverbal cues, by the pattern of perceptual activity during social interaction, and by the general personality structure of the perceiver.
Recurrent questions concerning revelation include: the relationship between general and special revelation; the relationship between word and deed as media of special revelation; the authority of the sacred books; the revelatory value of tradition; the nonverbal component in revelation; the interpersonal dimension of revelation; and the relationship between faith and reason.
In the 1970s American psychologist Daniel Berlyne introduced the "new experimental aesthetics," which was based on measuring the qualities of an object and relating them to a viewer's aesthetic perception and nonverbal responses.
The identification of thinking with speech was assailed by the Russian psychologist Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky and by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, both of whom observed the origins of human reasoning in children's general ability to assemble nonverbal acts into effective and flexible combinations.
During the last decades of the 20th century, theatrical troupes such as Els Joglars ("The Jongleurs"), Els Comediants ("The Comedians"), and La Cubana ("The Cuban"), as well as the women's group T de Teatre ("T as in Theatre") and the nonverbal theatre group La Fura dels Baus (a nonsensical phrase), gained international recognition.
One legacy of behaviourism in contemporary research on perception is a heavy reliance on very simple responses (often nonverbal), such as the pressing of a button or a lever.
Language interacts with nonverbal behaviour in social situations and serves to clarify and reinforce the various roles and relationships important in a particular culture.
Bonet helped develop one of the earliest and most successful methods for educating the deaf and improving their verbal and nonverbal communication skills.
