Intrapersonal Behavioral Coordination and Expressive Accuracy During First Impressions.

ABSTRACT: What factors influence how accurately we express our personalities? Here, we investigated the role of targets' nonverbal expressivity or the intrapersonal coordination between head and body movements. To do so, using a novel movement quantification method, we examined whether variability in a person's behavioral coordination was related to how accurately their personality was perceived by naive observers. Targets who exhibited greater variability in intrapersonal behavior coordination, indicating more expressive behavior, were perceived more accurately on high observability personality items, such as how energetic and helpful they are. Moreover, these associations held controlling for other indicators of overall movement, self- and perceiver-rated extroversion, as well as how engaging and

SUBMITTER: Latif N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8652366 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature