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Ross Buck |
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ross.buck@uconn.edu | Vitae |
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Evolution of human behavior, communication, and social structure. Social development of emotion expression: Overt, nonverbal, cognitive, and physiological aspects. Cognitive and emotional factors in human adaptation, including the relationships of emotional expression, stress, immune system functioning, and disease (cancer, cardiovascular disease, psychosomatic illness). Cognitive and emotional factors in human communication and social behavior. Nonverbal sending accuracy: Gender and personality differences, relationships with right vs. left hemisphere brain functions. Nonverbal receiving ability: Empathy, social perception/attribution. Brain mechanisms of emotion and motivation, especially in humans. |
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Education |
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B.A. - Allegheny College, 1963
M.A. - University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1965
Ph.D. - University of Pittsburgh, 1970 |
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Teaching |
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COMM/PSYC 255 Motivation and Emotion
COMM 290 Research Practicum
COMM 350 Nonverbal Communication |
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Office |
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PCSB 222 |
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860-486-4494 |
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Lab |
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Emotion Communication Research Laboratory |
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