Action Contribution to Competence Judgments: The Use of the Journey Schema.

ABSTRACT: The current research considered the question of how performing an action, or merely preparing the body for action, can have an impact on social judgments related to person perception. Participants were asked to ascribe competence and warmth characteristics to a target person by reading a metaphoric text while their body was manipulated to be prepared for the processing of action-congruent information. In Experiment 1, participants whose forward body action matched the metaphoric action described in the text ascribed more competence characteristics to a politician than did control participants. In Experiment 2, participants whose body was merely prepared for forward movement also ascribed more competence characteristics to a politician than did control participants. In addition, the data fr

SUBMITTER: Horchak OV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4812067 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature