Postural Communication of Emotion: Perception of Distinct Poses of Five Discrete Emotions.

ABSTRACT: Emotion can be communicated through multiple distinct modalities. However, an often-ignored channel of communication is posture. Recent research indicates that bodily posture plays an important role in the perception of emotion. However, research examining postural communication of emotion is limited by the variety of validated emotion poses and unknown cohesion of categorical and dimensional ratings. The present study addressed these limitations. Specifically, we examined individuals' (1) categorization of emotion postures depicting 5 discrete emotions (joy, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust), (2) categorization of different poses depicting the same discrete emotion, and (3) ratings of valence and arousal for each emotion pose. Findings revealed that participants successfully categorized

SUBMITTER: Lopez LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5432628 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature