Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Geoff Beattie [1] is an academic psychologist, writer and broadcaster. He is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University. He was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012. [2]He is best known for his detailed analyses of nonverbal communication which has featured in a large number of academic articles and books including ‘Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behaviour in Conversation ’ (Open University Press), ‘The Psychology of Language and Communication’ (Psychology Press), and ‘Visible Thought: The New Psychology of Body Language’ (Routledge). He has shown that some nonverbal communication, particularly the movements of the hands whilst talking, reflects unarticulated aspects of thinking and therefore we can potentially ‘read’ hidden thoughts by paying close attention to these movementsHe is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was awarded the Spearman Medal by the BPS for 'published psychological research of outstanding merit'. He was also President of the Psychology section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005 to 2006. In 2010 with a number of colleagues he was awarded the internationally acclaimed Mouton d’Or for the best paper in the leading semiotics journal Semiotica for research on the effects of deception on gesture production.He is also well known for bringing analyses of behaviour, and particularly nonverbal communication, to a more general audience by appearing as the on-screen psychologist on ten series of Big Brother in the U.K. and for explaining how psychology can be used by people in their everyday lives, for example, in Get the Edge: How Simple Changes Will Transform Your Life (Headline). The Chinese, Korean and Portuguese translations of this book will be appearing in the next year. His work in psychology has also been extensively covered in the national and international media. Geoff Beattie on the Live Election Debates 2010 (The Mirror, 16th April 2010) Geoff Beattie on the Live Election Debates 2010 (The Mirror, 23rd April 2010) Geoff Beattie on the Live Election Debates 2010 (The Mirror, 30th April 2010)Geoff Beattie on Men and Women's Talk (Mirror) Geoff Beattie on Men and Women's Talk (Daily Mail) Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (The Wall Street Journal) Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (Fox News) Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (ABC News) Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (Daily Mail) Geoff Beattie on The Broadband Generation De-coded (Virgin Media) Geoff Beattie on The Broadband Generation (Psychologies Magazine)From the start of his academic career he was interested in exploring psychological issues outside the ivory tower of the university and he wrote extensively about life in the North of England during a previous recession mainly for The Guardian newspaper. He focussed on the lives of unemployed steel workers and miners, the sometimes desperate new entrepreneurs, boxers, doormen, clubbers, ten bob ‘millionaires’ who were really on the dole, masseuses and burglars, those trying to get by day by day in desperate economic times. He was interested in how people survived psychologically when they were thrown onto the scrapheap by a government who did not seem particularly interested in their fate. The Sunday Times described him as ‘a gifted journalist with a genius for making people talk.’ City Life described him as ‘an impressive and eloquent chronicler of the buried underside of British life.’ The Manchester Evening News said that he was ‘slowly establishing himself as one of the most perceptive writers in the country’.This work resulted in a number of books including ‘Survivors of Steel City’ (Chatto & Windus), ‘Making It: The Reality of Today’s Entrepreneurs’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), ‘England After Dark’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson),‘Hard Lines: Voices from Deep within a Recession’ (Mandolin) and ‘On the Ropes: Boxing as a Way of Life’ (Victor Gollancz). ‘On the Ropes’ was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1996. He was also story consultant on an award winning ninety-minute documentary film about Sheffield, entitled 'Tales from a Hard City'. This documentary film won the Grand Prix at the Marseilles Film Festival and the Best Regional Film in the Indies Awards.. }
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- Geoffrey_Beattie abstract "Geoff Beattie [1] is an academic psychologist, writer and broadcaster. He is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University. He was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012. [2]He is best known for his detailed analyses of nonverbal communication which has featured in a large number of academic articles and books including ‘Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behaviour in Conversation ’ (Open University Press), ‘The Psychology of Language and Communication’ (Psychology Press), and ‘Visible Thought: The New Psychology of Body Language’ (Routledge). He has shown that some nonverbal communication, particularly the movements of the hands whilst talking, reflects unarticulated aspects of thinking and therefore we can potentially ‘read’ hidden thoughts by paying close attention to these movementsHe is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was awarded the Spearman Medal by the BPS for 'published psychological research of outstanding merit'. He was also President of the Psychology section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005 to 2006. In 2010 with a number of colleagues he was awarded the internationally acclaimed Mouton d’Or for the best paper in the leading semiotics journal Semiotica for research on the effects of deception on gesture production.He is also well known for bringing analyses of behaviour, and particularly nonverbal communication, to a more general audience by appearing as the on-screen psychologist on ten series of Big Brother in the U.K. and for explaining how psychology can be used by people in their everyday lives, for example, in Get the Edge: How Simple Changes Will Transform Your Life (Headline). The Chinese, Korean and Portuguese translations of this book will be appearing in the next year. His work in psychology has also been extensively covered in the national and international media. Geoff Beattie on the Live Election Debates 2010 (The Mirror, 16th April 2010) Geoff Beattie on the Live Election Debates 2010 (The Mirror, 23rd April 2010) Geoff Beattie on the Live Election Debates 2010 (The Mirror, 30th April 2010)Geoff Beattie on Men and Women's Talk (Mirror) Geoff Beattie on Men and Women's Talk (Daily Mail) Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (The Wall Street Journal) Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (Fox News) Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (ABC News) Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (Daily Mail) Geoff Beattie on The Broadband Generation De-coded (Virgin Media) Geoff Beattie on The Broadband Generation (Psychologies Magazine)From the start of his academic career he was interested in exploring psychological issues outside the ivory tower of the university and he wrote extensively about life in the North of England during a previous recession mainly for The Guardian newspaper. He focussed on the lives of unemployed steel workers and miners, the sometimes desperate new entrepreneurs, boxers, doormen, clubbers, ten bob ‘millionaires’ who were really on the dole, masseuses and burglars, those trying to get by day by day in desperate economic times. He was interested in how people survived psychologically when they were thrown onto the scrapheap by a government who did not seem particularly interested in their fate. The Sunday Times described him as ‘a gifted journalist with a genius for making people talk.’ City Life described him as ‘an impressive and eloquent chronicler of the buried underside of British life.’ The Manchester Evening News said that he was ‘slowly establishing himself as one of the most perceptive writers in the country’.This work resulted in a number of books including ‘Survivors of Steel City’ (Chatto & Windus), ‘Making It: The Reality of Today’s Entrepreneurs’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), ‘England After Dark’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson),‘Hard Lines: Voices from Deep within a Recession’ (Mandolin) and ‘On the Ropes: Boxing as a Way of Life’ (Victor Gollancz). ‘On the Ropes’ was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1996. He was also story consultant on an award winning ninety-minute documentary film about Sheffield, entitled 'Tales from a Hard City'. This documentary film won the Grand Prix at the Marseilles Film Festival and the Best Regional Film in the Indies Awards.".