Speaking through the body: Do people associate the body movements of politicians with their speech?. (27th December 2017)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Speaking through the body: Do people associate the body movements of politicians with their speech?. (27th December 2017)
- Main Title:
- Speaking through the body
- Authors:
- Koppensteiner, Markus
Siegle, Greg - Abstract:
- Abstract : When people speak, they gesture. However, is the audience watching a speaker who is sensitive to this link? We translated the body movements of politicians into stick-figure animations and separated the visual from the audio channel. We then asked participants to match a selection of five audio tracks (including the correct one) with the stick-figure animations. The participants made correct decisions in 65% of all cases (chance level of 20%). Matching voices with animations was less difficult when politicians showed expansive movements and spoke with a loud voice. Thus, people are sensitive to the link between motion cues and vocal cues, and this link appears to become even more apparent when a speaker shows expressive behaviors. Future work will have to refine and validate the methods applied and investigate how mismatches between communication channels affect the impressions that people form of politicians.
- Is Part Of:
- Politics and the life sciences. Volume 36:Number 2(2017)
- Journal:
- Politics and the life sciences
- Issue:
- Volume 36:Number 2(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 36, Issue 2 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0036-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 104
- Page End:
- 113
- Publication Date:
- 2017-12-27
- Subjects:
- Nonverbal communication, -- multimodal signals, -- bodily expressiveness, -- vocal expressiveness, -- gesture, -- impression formation, -- stick figure animation, -- politics
Biopolitics -- Periodicals
Human behavior -- Periodicals
Biology -- Periodicals
Political science -- Periodicals
320.01 - Journal URLs:
- http://politicsandthelifesciences.org/ ↗
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/beech/pls ↗
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-life-sciences ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/pls.2017.23 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0730-9384
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