Untangling the Ties Between Social Cognition and Body Motion: Gender Impact.

ABSTRACT: We proved the viability of the general hypothesis that biological motion (BM) processing serves as a hallmark of social cognition. We assumed that BM processing and inferring emotions through BM (body language reading) are firmly linked and examined whether this tie is gender-specific. Healthy females and males completed two tasks with the same set of point-light BM displays portraying angry and neutral locomotion of female and male actors. For one task, perceivers had to indicate actor gender, while for the other, they had to infer the emotional content of locomotion. Thus, with identical visual input, we directed task demands either to BM processing or inferring of emotion. This design allows straight comparison between sensitivity to BM and recognition of emotions conveyed by the same B

SUBMITTER: Isernia S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7016199 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature