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Janet Beavin Bavelas

Janet Beavin Bavelas

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
37
Citations
13435
World Ranking
6058
National Ranking
361

Janet Beavin Bavelas publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Janet Beavin Bavelas sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 84 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Janet Beavin Bavelas D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Janet Beavin Bavelas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Janet Beavin Bavelas is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and has a research focus primarily within Psychology and Arts and Humanities. Their work spans several subfields including Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Linguistic research and analysis
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments

Bavelas has published regularly in multiple academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Systemic Therapies
  • Discourse Processes
  • Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd

Recent research outputs contain the following papers:

  • "Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue," 2022, Discourse Processes
  • "Pragmatics of Human Communication 50 Years Later," 2021, Journal of Systemic Therapies
  • "Microanalysis of Positive and Negative Content in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Expert Sessions," 2024, Journal of Systemic Therapies
  • "De pragmatische aspecten van de menselijke communicatie 50 jaar later," 2022, Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd

Their body of work includes book publications with Oxford University Press, notably "Face-to-Face Dialogue," published in 2022.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Judith Holler
  • J. J. Woods
  • Mareike Geiger
  • Lauren Simons
  • Sara Smock Jordan

Janet Beavin Bavelas was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995 within the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Pragmatics of human communication

    Paul. Watzlawick;Janet Beavin Bavelas;Don D. Jackson

  • Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes

    Paul Watzlawick;Janet Beavin Bavelas;Don D. Jackson

  • Listeners as co-narrators.

    Janet B. Bavelas;Linda Coates;Trudy Johnson

  • Listener Responses as a Collaborative Process: The Role of Gaze

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Linda Coates;Trudy Johnson

  • "I show how you feel": Motor mimicry as a communicative act.

    Janet B. Bavelas;Alex Black;Charles R. Lemery;Jennifer Mullett

  • Pragmatics of human communication : a study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes

    Paul Watzlawick;Janet Beavin Bavelas;Don D Jackson;Bill O'Hanlon

  • Gesturing on the telephone: Independent effects of dialogue and visibility

    Janet Bavelas;Jennifer Gerwing;Chantelle Sutton;Danielle Prevost

  • Gestures Specialized for Dialogue

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Nicole Chovil;Linda Coates;Lori Roe

  • Visible Acts of Meaning: An Integrated Message Model of Language in Face-to-Face Dialogue

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Nicole Chovil

  • Linguistic influences on gesture’s form

    Jennifer Gerwing;Janet Bavelas

  • Form and Function in Motor Mimicry Topographic Evidence that the Primary Function Is Communicative

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Alex Black;Nicole Chovil;Charles R. Lemery

  • Motor mimicry as primitive empathy.

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Alex Black;Charles R. Lemery;Jennifer Mullett

  • Gestures as Part of Speech: Methodological Implications

    Janet Beavin Bavelas

  • Family Systems Theory: Background and Implications.

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Lynn Segal

  • The Listener as Addressee in Face-to-Face Dialogue

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Jennifer Gerwing

  • Political Equivocation: A Situational Explanation:

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Alex Black;Lisa Bryson;Jennifer Mullett

  • Teoría de la comunicación humana : interacciones, patologías y paradojas

    Paul Watzlawick;Janet Beavin Bavelas;Don D. Jackson

  • The psychology of facial expression: Faces in dialogue

    Janet Beavin Bavelas;Nicole Chovil

  • The social psychology of citations.

    Janet B. Bavelas

  • An experimental study of when and how speakers use gestures to communicate

    Janet Bavelas;Christine Kenwood;Trudy Johnson;Bruce Phillips

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