Decoding spatiotemporal features of emotional body language in social interactions.

ABSTRACT: How are emotions perceived through human body language in social interactions? This study used point-light displays of human interactions portraying emotional scenes (1) to examine quantitative intrapersonal kinematic and postural body configurations, (2) to calculate interaction-specific parameters of these interactions, and (3) to analyze how far both contribute to the perception of an emotion category (i.e. anger, sadness, happiness or affection) as well as to the perception of emotional valence. By using ANOVA and classification trees, we investigated emotion-specific differences in the calculated parameters. We further applied representational similarity analyses to determine how perceptual ratings relate to intra- and interpersonal features of the observed scene. Results showed that

SUBMITTER: Keck J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9445068 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature