Abstract

WECHSLER, Amanda Muglia  and  AMARAL, Vera Lúcia Adami Raposo do. Verbal correspondence: an overview of national and international publications. Temas psicol. [online]. 2009, vol.17, n.2, pp.437-447. ISSN 1413-389X.

Verbal correspondence can be defined as the relation between the verbal and the non-verbal behavior of an individual. This study aimed to do a survey, in national and international journals related to verbal correspondence, from 1960 to 2008. The key-words related to the subject of verbal correspondence, researched in the following electronic databases were: Indexpsi, Psychinfo, Scielo, Bireme, Lilacs, JABA and JEAB. It was found 60 publications related to the theme, 93,33% of them were international and 6,66 brazilian. It is concluded that the production on the subject is still very scarce in Brazil. However, there is a great variety of methodologies, which facilitates to understand the phenomenon of the verbal correspondence.

Keywords : Operant behavior; Verbal behavior; Verbal correspondence; State of the art; Say and do.

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