“…A robust finding in this context is that subjectively reported feelings are associated with particular changes in heart-rate, skin conductance and other physiological parameters (e.g., Lang et al, 1999). Interestingly, this association is often only moderate in general population (Mauss, Levenson, McCarter, Wilhelm, & Gross, 2005), but increased in expert dancers (Sze, Gyurak, Yuan, & Levenson, 2010). This suggests that expertise in the bodily expression of emotion can augment the extent to which arousal influences the subjective experience of feelings and there are reasons to believe that this could enhance sensitivity to the emotion expressed in the Running head: MOVEMENT EXPERTISE AND AFFECTIVE SENSITIVITY 5 movements of others.…”