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From body motion to cheers: Speakers’ body movements as predictors of applause

Appearance cues and brief displays of behavior are related to people’s personality, to their performance at work and to the outcomes of elections. Thus, people present themselves to others on different communication channels, while their interaction partners form first impressions on the basis of th...

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Autores principales: Koppensteiner, Markus, Stephan, Pia, Jäschke, Johannes Paul Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pergamon Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4261082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.10.019
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description Appearance cues and brief displays of behavior are related to people’s personality, to their performance at work and to the outcomes of elections. Thus, people present themselves to others on different communication channels, while their interaction partners form first impressions on the basis of the displayed cues. In the current study we examined whether people are able to read information from politicians’ body motion. For a rating experiment we translated short video clips of politicians giving a speech into animated stick-figures and had these animations rated on trustworthiness, dominance, competence and the Big Five personality dimensions. Afterwards we correlated the ratings with the applause and the hecklings that the speakers received throughout their entire speech. This revealed that speakers whose body movements were perceived as high on dominance, as high on extraversion and as low on agreeableness received more applause. Although the results obtained need support from additional studies they indicate that body motion is an informative cue in real life settings.
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spelling pubmed-42610822015-02-01 From body motion to cheers: Speakers’ body movements as predictors of applause Koppensteiner, Markus Stephan, Pia Jäschke, Johannes Paul Michael Pers Individ Dif Short Communication Appearance cues and brief displays of behavior are related to people’s personality, to their performance at work and to the outcomes of elections. Thus, people present themselves to others on different communication channels, while their interaction partners form first impressions on the basis of the displayed cues. In the current study we examined whether people are able to read information from politicians’ body motion. For a rating experiment we translated short video clips of politicians giving a speech into animated stick-figures and had these animations rated on trustworthiness, dominance, competence and the Big Five personality dimensions. Afterwards we correlated the ratings with the applause and the hecklings that the speakers received throughout their entire speech. This revealed that speakers whose body movements were perceived as high on dominance, as high on extraversion and as low on agreeableness received more applause. Although the results obtained need support from additional studies they indicate that body motion is an informative cue in real life settings. Pergamon Press 2015-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4261082/ /pubmed/25648504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.10.019 Text en © 2014 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4261082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.10.019
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