Selected publications

Books

• Manusov, V., & Geary, D. (2024, in production). Facilitated interracial dialogues about race: Building the container of our shared humanity. San Diego, CA: Cognella.
• Koenig Kellas, J., & Manusov, V. (2024, in production). Interpersonal communication: The within and the between. San Diego, CA: Cognella.
• Burgoon, J. K., Manusov, V., & Guerrero, L. K. (2022). Nonverbal communication (2^nd ed). Routledge.
• Manusov, V., & Patterson, M. L. (Eds.) (2006). The Sage handbook of nonverbal communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Manusov, V. (Ed.) (2005). The sourcebook of nonverbal measures: Going beyond words. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Manusov, V., & Harvey, J. H. (Eds.). (2001). Attribution, communication behavior, and close relationships.  Cambridge, ENGLAND: Cambridge University Press.
• Canary, D. J., Cody, M. J., & Manusov, V. (2008). Interpersonal communication: A goals-based approach. 4^th ed.  New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.

Articles since 2000

• Wolfe, B. H., Manusov, V., & Scharp, K. (2024). Constructing resilience online: Communicative responses to triggers based on race, religion, ethnicity, and nationality. Communication Monographs. 1-39. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2300821
• Geary, D., & Manusov, V. (2023). Facilitated contact: Building the container for community-based interracial conversations about race. Howard Journal of Communications, 1-24. Advance online publication. https://doi.10.1080/10646175.2023.2274939
• Manusov, V., & Compton, B. L. (2023). Pelosi, pointing, and power: Assumptions about emotion, emotionality, and gender in media discussions of a nonverbal moment.  Howard Journal of Communications, 34(4), 422–441. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2195059
• Ray, C. D., & Manusov, V. (2023). What counts as an acceptable reason for not communicating emotional support? Personal Relationships, 30(2), 596–619. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12470
• Geary, D., Scharp, K., & Manusov, V. (2022). Life interrupted instead of disrupted: Triggers and resilient communication processes revealed in POZ.com online narratives by men with HIV who have sex with men. Journal of Applied Communication. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2099227
• Manusov, V. (2020). In praise of solitude: The “fertile void” and its role in communication and relationships. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 28(1), 68-83. doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2020.1684158
• Harvey, J., & Manusov, V. (2020). Rapping about rap: Parental mediation of gender-stereotyped media content. Marriage & Family Review, 56, 264-286. doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2020.1712303
• Manusov, V., Stofleth, D., & Reynolds, R. (2019). Advocating for dialogue: Short and long-term outcomes of Seattle-based KUOW Radio’s “Ask A” project. Howard Journal of Communications. doi:10.1080/10646175.2019.1649763
• Stofleth, D., & Manusov, V. (2019). Talking about mindfulness: An ethnography of communication analysis of two speech communities. Language & Communication, 67, 45-54. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2018.12.003
• Ray, C. D., Manusov, V., & McClaren, R. (2019). “Emotional support won’t cure cancer”: Reasons people give for not providing emotional support provision. Western Journal of Communication, 83, 20-38. doi:10.1080/10570314.2018.1472800 (also featured in University of Kentucky’s KeepingItCom YouTube series)
• Harvey, J. A., Manusov, V., & Sanders, E. (2019). Assessing the efficacy of an expressive writing intervention in improving reported stress, empathy, and support provision quality for cancer caregivers. Communication Monographs, 86.  doi:10.1080/03637751.2018.1521983
• Manusov, V., Stofleth, D., Harvey, J. A., & Crowley, J. P. (2018). Conditions and consequences of listening well for interpersonal relationships: Modeling active-empathic listening, social-emotional skills, trait mindfulness, and relational quality. International Journal of Listening, 32, 1-17. doi:10.1080/10904018.2018.1507745 (also cited in Mindfulness Research Monthly)
• Harvey-Knowles, J. A., Sanders, E. A., Ko, L. K., Manusov, V., & Yi, J. (2017). The impact of written emotional disclosure on cancer caregivers’ perceptions of burden, stress, and depression: A randomized controlled trial. Health Communication, 33, 1-9. doi:10.1080/10410236.2017.1315677
• Manusov, V., & Keeley, M. P. (2015). When family talk is difficult: Making sense of nonverbal communication at the end-of-life. Journal of Family Communication, 15, 387-409.  doi:10.1080/15267431.2015.1076424 (Winner of Article of the Year award by JFC)
• Harvey-Knowles, J. A, Manusov, V., & Crowley, J. P. (2015). Minding your matters: Predicting relational satisfaction, commitment, and conflict styles from trait-mindfulness. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 9, 44-58. doi:10.5964/ijpr.v9i1.168
• Docan-Morgan, T., Manusov, V., & Harvey, J. (2013). When a small thing means so much: Nonverbal cues as turning points in relationships. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 7, 110-124. doi:10.5964/ijpr.v7i1.119
• Manusov, V., & Harvey, J. (2011). Bumps and tears on the road to the presidency: Media framing of two nonverbal events in the 2008 Democratic election. Western Journal of Communication, 75, 282-303. doi:10.1080/10570314.2011.571650
• Rivenburgh, N. K., & Manusov, V. (2010). Decentering as a research design strategy for international and intercultural research. Journal of International Communication, 16, 23-40. doi:10.1080/13216597.2010.9674757
• Milstein, T., & Manusov, V. (2009). Opposition in Israeli media: Reflections of multiple cultural identities in coverage of the Rabin-Arafat handshake. Howard Journal of Communications, 20, 353-369. doi:10.1080/10646170903300796
• Lewis, T. J., & Manusov, V. (2009). Listening to another’s distress in everyday relationships. Communication Quarterly, 57, 282-301. doi:10.1080/01463370903107279.
• Docan-Morgan, T., & Manusov, V. (2009). Relational turning point events and their outcomes in college teacher-student relationships from students’ perspectives. Communication Education, 58, 74-107. doi:10.1080/03634520802515713 (lead article)
• Manusov, V., & Milstein, T.  (2005). Interpreting nonverbal communication: Representation and transformation frames in Israeli and Palestinian media coverage of the 1993 Rabin-Arafat handshake.  Western Journal of Communication, 69, 183-201. doi:10.1080/10570310500202322
• Manusov, V., Koenig Kellas, J., & Trees, A. R.  (2004). Do unto others…? Conversational moves and perceptions of attentiveness toward other face in accounting sequences between friends. Human Communication Research, 30, 514-539. doi:10.1093/hcr/30.4.514
• Doohan, E. M., & Manusov, V. (2004). The communication of compliments in romantic relationships: An investigation of relational satisfaction and sex differences and similarities in compliment behavior. Western Journal of Communication, 68, 170-194.
• Koenig Kellas, J., & Manusov, V. (2003). What’s in a story? The influence of narrative completeness on tellers’ adjustment to relationship dissolution.  Journal of Personal and Social Relationships, 20, 285-308.
• Manusov, V., & Trees, A. R. (2002). “‘Are you kidding me?’ The role of nonverbal cues in the verbal accounting process.”  Journal of Communication, 52, 640-656.  (Special issue on the relationship between language and nonverbal communication).
• Warnick, B., & Manusov, V.  (2000). The organization of justificatory discourse in interaction: A comparison within and across cultures. Argumentation, 14, 381-404.

Book chapters since 2000

• Guerrero, L. K., & Manusov, V. (in press). Teaching nonverbal communication. To appear in M. Strawser & D. Sellnow (Eds.), Teaching communication (Vol. 2). Cognella.
• Manusov, V. (2022). Love in the time of COVID-19: What we can learn about nonverbal behavior from living with a pandemic. In R. Sternberg & A. Kostic (Eds.), Nonverbal communication in close relationships: What words don’t tell us (pp. 251-275). Palgrave-Macmillan.
• Spitzberg, B. H., & Manusov, V. (2022).  Attributes of attribution theory: Finding good cause in the search for theory. In D. O. Braithwaite & P. Schrodt (Eds.), Engaging theories in interpersonal communication (3^rd ed., pp. 39-51). Sage.
• Manusov, V. (2020). Social interaction. In P. Moy (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in communication. Oxford University Press.
• Manusov, V. (2020). Interpersonal communication. In D. L. Worthington & G. D. Bodie (Eds.), Handbook of listening (pp. 103-119). Wiley-Blackwell.
• Manusov, V., & Huston, D. C. (2018). Mindfulness training in the communication classroom: Effects of communication competence, emotion regulation, and emotional intelligence. In D. Grimes, Q. Wang, & L. Hong (Eds.), Empirical studies of contemplative practices (pp. 207-239). New York: Nova Science.
• Manusov, V. (2018). Attribution theory: Who’s at fault in families? In D. O. Braithwaite, E. Suter, & K. Floyd (Eds.), Engaging theories is family communication, 2^nd ed. (pp. 51-61). New York: Routledge.
• Manusov. V. (2017). A cultured look at nonverbal cues. In L. Chen (Ed.), Handbook of intercultural communication (pp. 239-259). De Gruyter Mouton: Berlin, Germany.
• Floyd, K., & Manusov, V. (2017). Biological versus social signaling systems. In J. K. Burgoon, A. Vinciarelli, M. Pantic, & N. Magnenat-Thalmann (Eds.), Social signal processing (pp. 11-22). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.
• Manusov, V. (2017). Foreward. Just relationships by D. L. Kelley (xi-xiii). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
• Manusov, V. (2016). Nonverbal communication. In R. T. Craig, J. Pooley, & E. Rothenbuhler (Eds.), International encyclopedia of communication theory and philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell and the International Communication Association.
• Manusov, V. (2016). The history of nonverbal communication research: Our divergent pasts and their contemporary legacies. In D. Matsumoto, H. Hwang, & M. Frank (Eds.), APA handbook of nonverbal communication (pp. 3-15). American Psychological Association.
• Manusov, V. (2015). Mindfulness as morality: Awareness, nonjudgment, and nonreactivity in couples’ communication. In V. Waldron & D. Kelley (Eds.), Developing good relationships: Moral communication across the lifespan (pp. 183-201). New York: Peter Lang.
• Manusov, V. (2015). Facial expressions. In C. R. Berger & M. E. Roloff (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication. Wiley-Blackwell and the International Communication Association.
• Manusov, V. (2015). Facial feedback hypothesis. In C. R. Berger & M. E. Roloff (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication. Wiley-Blackwell and the International Communication Association.
• Manusov, V., & Harvey-Knowles, J. A. (2015). On being (and becoming) mindful: One pathway to greater resilience. In G. Beck & T. Socha (Eds.), Communicating hope and resilience across the lifespan (pp. 15-33). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
• Manusov, V., Docan-Morgan, T., & Harvey, J. (2014). Nonverbal firsts: When nonverbal cues are the impetus of relational and personal change in romantic relationships. In D. Chadee & A. Kostic (Eds.), Social psychology of nonverbal communication (pp. 153-172). New York: Palgrave-McMillan Press.
• Spitzberg, B. H., & Manusov, V. (2014).  Attributes of attribution theory: Finding good cause in the search for theory.  In D. O. Braithwaite & P. Schrodt (Eds.), Engaging theories in interpersonal communication (2^nd ed., pp. 37-50). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Manusov, V., & Doohan, E. M. (2011). “My facial expression showed her that the woman could talk forever!”: Meanings assigned to nonverbal cues used in relationships. In D. Chadee & A. Kostic (Eds.), Research in social psychology (pp. 69-92).Kingston, Jamaica:University of the West Indies Press.
• Manusov, V. (2011). Being civil with ourselves. Spectra, 47, 16-19.
• Burgoon, J. K., Guerrero, L., & Manusov, V. (2011). Nonverbal signals. In M. L. Knapp & J. A. Daly (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal communication (4^th ed., pp. 239-282). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Manusov, V. (2010). Social interaction. In P. Moy (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies online communication. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Manusov, V. (2009). Negative affect reciprocity. In H. T. Reis & S. K. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Manusov, V.  (2008). Stereotypes and nonverbal cues: Showing how we feel about others during cross-cultural interactions.  In L. K. Guerrero & M. L. Hecht (Eds.), Nonverbal communication reader: Classic and contemporary readings, 3^rd ed.  (pp. 314-320). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
• Manusov, V. (2008).  Book review of K. Floyd (2006) “Communicating affection: Interpersonal behavior and social context.” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 25, 380-381.
• Manusov, V. (2008). Attribution processes. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of communication (Vol. 1, pp. 247-250). Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Manusov, V. (2008). Facial expressions. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of communication (Vol. 4, pp. 1707-1710). Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Manusov, V., & Kurylo, A. (2008). Stereotypes. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of communication (Vol. 5, pp. 2253-2257). Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Manusov, V., & Spitzberg, B. H. (2008).  Attributes of attribution theory: Finding good cause in the search for theory.  In D. O. Braithwaite & L. A. Baxter (Eds.), Engaging theories in interpersonal communication (pp. 37-49).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Manusov, V. (2007).  Attributions and interpersonal communication: Out of our heads and into behavior.  In D. R. Rosko-Ewoldson & J. Monahan (Eds.), Communication and social cognition: Theories and methods (pp. 141-169).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Manusov, V. (2006).  Book review of L. Stafford (2004) “Maintaining long distance and cross residential relationships.” Journal of Communication, 56, 630-631.
• Manusov, V., & Jaworski, A. (2006). Casting nonverbal behavior in the media: Representations and responses.  In V. Manusov & M. L. Patterson (Eds.), Handbook of nonverbal communication (pp. 237-255).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Manusov, V., & Patterson, M. L. (2006). Preface. In V. Manusov & M. L. Patterson (Eds.), Handbook of nonverbal communication (pp. xi-xiii).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Patterson, M. L., & Manusov, V. (2006). Nonverbal communication: Basic issues and future prospects. In V. Manusov & M. L. Patterson (Eds.), Handbook of nonverbal communication (pp. 522-532).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Manusov, V. (2005).  Attribution theories: Assessing causal and responsibility judgments in families.  In D. O. Braithwaite & L. A. Baxter (Eds.), Engaging theories in family communication (pp. 181-196). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Manusov, V. (2004).  Measuring attributions given to nonverbal cues. In V. Manusov (Ed.), The sourcebook of measures for nonverbal behavior: Going beyond words (pp. 335-346).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Manusov, V. (2002).  Thought and action: Connecting attributions to behaviors in married couples’ interactions. In P. Noller & J. A. Feeney (Eds.), Understanding marriage: Developments in the study of couple interactions (pp. 14-31). Cambridge, ENGLAND: Cambridge University Press. (lead chapter).
• Manusov, V., & Trees, A. R. (2002). “‘Are you kidding me?’ The role of nonverbal cues in the verbal accounting process.”  Journal of Communication, 52, 640-656.  (Special issue on the relationship between language and nonverbal communication).
• Manusov, V., & Koenig, J. (2001). The content of attributions for nonverbal behaviors in marital interaction. In V. Manusov & J. H. Harvey (Eds.), Attribution, communication behavior, and close relationships (pp. 134-152). Cambridge, ENGLAND: Cambridge University Press.