Moving speeches: Dominance, trustworthiness and competence in body motion

Koppensteiner, Markus; Stephan, Pia; Jäschke, Johannes Paul Michael

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.01.013

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“…We assumed that such findings and considerations also transfer to body motion and that basic social qualities are reflected in simple motion cues. In accordance with previous work, that also was based on stick-figure animations of speakers, results for competence were the least convincing [23]. It appears that competence is difficult to express through body motion or through the simple cues that were manipulated during our experiments.…”

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“…People not only perceive dominance and aggressiveness but also likability, competence and trustworthiness in nonverbal cues such as body movements and facial photographs [23,30,31]. Moreover, social cognition is claimed to have its roots in two universal categories namely warmth (including trustworthiness and agreeableness) and competence [42].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…High friendliness and high trustworthiness were assumed to be associated with less expansive and slower movements than low friendliness and low trustworthiness because in previous research using stick-figure animations of speakers we found that both social categories are negatively related with dominance [22]. Using the methodical framework of classic rating studies, in this previous work we also found no clear relationship between competence and the body motion of speakers [23]. Therefore, we were unable to formulate a hypothesis on how this social category is reflected in the motion components that were manipulated here.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Power and dominance appear to be conveyed through expansive body postures, expressive body movements, and broad gestures [23,32–36]. Hence, we expected high dominance and high aggressiveness to be associated with more expansive movements and higher velocity than low dominance and low aggressiveness.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Create your own stimulus: Manipulating movements according to social categories

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People ascribe purposeful behaviour to the movements of artificial objects and social qualities to human body motion. We investigated how people associate simple motion cues with social categories. For a first rating-experiment we converted the body movements of speakers into stick-figure animations; for a second rating-experiment we used animations of one single dot. Rating-experiments were “reversed” because we asked participants to alter the movements (i.e., vertical amplitude, horizontal amplitude, and velocity) of the stimuli according to different instructions (e.g., create a stimulus of high dominance). Participants equipped stick figures and dot animations with expansive movements to represent high dominance. Expansive and fast movements (i.e., high velocity) were mainly associated with high aggressiveness. Fast movements were also associated with low friendliness, low trustworthiness, and low competence. Overall, patterns found for stick figure and dot animations were similar indicating that certain motion cues convey social information even when only a dot and no body form is visible. The “reverse approach” we propose here makes the impact of different components directly observable. The data generated by this method offers better insights into the interplay of these components and the ways in which they form meaningful patterns. The proposed method can be extended to other types of nonverbal cues and a variety of social categories.

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“…Postural signals and facial displays do interact to provide socially useful information, even if the messages provided are complex (Toscano, Schubert, & Giessner, 2018). Likewise, important information can be provided through arm and hand gestures, that may regard personality traits more generally (Koppensteiner & Grammer, 2010;Koppensteiner, Stephan, & Jäschke, 2016), or specific information that may contemporaneous with statements made (Beattie, 2016;P. E. Bull, 1987).…”

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Politics, lies and video tapes: Non verbal cues and signals in the age of 'fake news'

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2018

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With our current preoccupation with ‘fake news’ it is perhaps time to consider how such (mis) information spreads and whether “fake news” is false, misleading, or merely uncomfortable. Ironically, these political narratives are often disseminated by the political figures themselves – who then complain about the veracity of media coverage when it does not match their message. This situation is captured by the, perhaps unduly, pessimistic old joke “How can you tell a politician is lying? His lips are moving” which underscores a fundamental concern for scholars who study the political world: how does one judge when a political figure is being truthful ?

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Understanding Public Speakers’ Performance: First Contributions to Support a Computational Approach

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Soares

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Communication is part of our everyday life and our ability to communicate can have a significant role in a variety of contexts in our personal, academic, and professional lives. For long, the characterization of what is a good communicator has been subject to research and debate by several areas, particularly in Education, with a focus on improving the performance of teachers. In this context, the literature suggests that the ability to communicate is not only defined by the verbal component, but also by a plethora of non-verbal contributions providing redundant or complementary information, and, sometimes, being the message itself. However, even though we can recognize a good or bad communicator, objectively, little is known about what aspects -and to what extent -define the quality of a presentation. The goal of this work is to create the grounds to support the study of the defining characteristics of a good communicator in a more systematic and objective form. To this end, we conceptualize and provide a first prototype for a computational approach to characterize the different elements that are involved in communication, from audiovisual data, illustrating the outcomes and applicability of the proposed methods on a video database of public speakers.

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Moving speeches: Dominance, trustworthiness and competence in body motion

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

Create your own stimulus: Manipulating movements according to social categories

Create your own stimulus: Manipulating movements according to social categories

Politics, lies and video tapes: Non verbal cues and signals in the age of 'fake news'

Understanding Public Speakers’ Performance: First Contributions to Support a Computational Approach

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