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Geoff Beattie () is an academic psychologist, writer and broadcaster. He is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University and a Masters supervisor on the Sustainability Leadership Programme at the University of Cambridge. He was Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester from 1994 until 2012, Head of the Department of Psychology from 2000 to 2004 and Head of the School of Psychological Sciences from 2004 to 2011. He was also a Professorial Research Fellow in the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) at the University from 2008 to 2012 and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012.() 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 movements He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was awarded the Spearman Medal by the BPS for 'published psychological research of outstanding merit'. In 2010, with a number of colleagues, he was awarded the internationally acclaimed Mouton d’Or 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:oVq1D9wIkMoJ:media.wix.com/ugd/ddf6f8_0cbe55c98b3cab7b40679ed6fa7c5218.pdf%3Fdn%3Dmdo2011.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh102qEmSoQheTXy_ZM68SRaE0ugIrtQEURmxMn2tDFw4vJs984V0OpdywK6ienGR11LUqgyUajJA8NIh-B3VXkJfN1pSxo_4zz0TggqQ1NdkTCDQp8gBuZiJr86PDox7R02FvV&sig=AHIEtbTnzL_xMm0p2NHTTRaC6gqupEu-wg )〕 for the best paper in the leading semiotics journal Semiotica for research on the effects of deception on gesture production. He has always been keen to show the relevance of psychology to society in general and in 2005/2006 he was President of the Psychology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He has given numerous keynote addresses at both academic and non-academic international conferences which have involved commercial organisations including Unilever, P&G, ITV, HSBC, Tesco, the Marketing Forum and many others. He has also carried out extensive media work on behalf of a wide range of organisations. He is well known for bringing analyses of behaviour, and particularly nonverbal communication, to a more general audience by appearing as the on-screen psychologist on eleven 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). Translations of this book have now appeared in China, Taiwan and Brazil and his work in psychology has also been extensively covered in the national and international media including ABC News, Russia Today, Good Morning America, BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph and The Mirror amongst many others. * (Geoff Beattie on the Live Election Debates 2010 (''The Mirror'', 23 April 2010) ) * (Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (ABC News) ) 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.williamhillmedia.com/index.php/sports-book-previous-winners-2 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.picturepalace.com/ourproductions/talesfromahardcity/ )〕 == Early life and education == He was born in Ligoniel in North Belfast. His father Billy was a motor mechanic, his mother Eileen worked in the local mill. After leaving Belfast Royal Academy, he studied psychology at the University of Birmingham graduating with a First Class Honours degree and then did his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. The research focus for his Ph.D. was the relationship between thinking and language, but he became particularly interested in nonverbal communication and its connection with language and thought, an interest that has continued to the present. His first academic job was at the University of Sheffield where he was appointed lecturer in social psychology. North Belfast was an area particularly affected by the Troubles (and often called ‘Murder Triangle’ by the media) and he wrote about his Protestant working-class background in a number of books ‘We Are the People: Journeys through the Heart of Protestant Ulster’ (Heinemann), ‘Protestant Boy’ (Granta) and a novel ‘The Corner Boys’ (Victor Gollancz). ‘We are The People’ and ‘The Corner Boys’ were both shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize in 1993 and 1999 respectively. He also wrote about Northern Ireland and the Troubles for various newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Independent and The New Statesman. He made a documentary for BBC1 Northern Ireland entitled From the Turn-of-the-Road charting the return to his roots in North Belfast for the documentary series Home Truths. He also wrote and presented ‘The Ceasefire Generation’ a documentary about eighteen year-olds in Northern Ireland, born after the 1994 ceasefire, broadcast on Radio 4, in September 2012. (The Ceasefire Generation, BBC1 Northern Ireland ) He has always been a keen sportsman and interested in the psychology behind sport. This resulted in two series for Radio 5 Live and a book ‘Head to Head: Uncovering the Psychology of Sporting Success’ (Victor Gollancz) analyzing the psychology underlying sporting success in interviews with Alex Ferguson, Kelly Holmes, Naseem Hamed, Jonathan Edwards, Chris Boardman and others. He also explored the lives of boxers in and out of the ring in two books based around Brendan Ingle’s gym in Sheffield ‘On the Ropes: Boxing as a Way of Life’ (Victor Gollancz) and ‘The Shadows of Boxing. Prince Naseem and Those He Left Behind’ (Orion). He took up boxing to write ‘On the Ropes’, as other more illustrious writers have done in the past. Indeed the first ‘word’ in ‘On the Ropes’ is the noise he made involuntarily when he was punched in the stomach by Mick ‘the Bomb’ Mills. He has trained daily since he was thirteen (the year his father died). His son Ben could never understand why he had to run with his father as a child. Ben himself is now a dedicated and very successful runner (bordering on elite status) and he understands his father a little better. They explored their relationship and their compulsion to run in ‘Chasing Lost Times: A Father and Son Reconciled Through Running’ (Mainstream). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoffrey Beattie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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