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- Title
Speaking through the body.
- Authors
Koppensteiner, Markus; Siegle, Greg
- Abstract
When people speak, they gesture. However, is the audience watching a speaker who is sensitive to this link? We translated the body movements of politicians into stick-figure animations and separated the visual from the audio channel. We then asked participants to match a selection of five audio tracks (including the correct one) with the stick-figure animations. The participants made correct decisions in 65% of all cases (chance level of 20%). Matching voices with animations was less difficult when politicians showed expansive movements and spoke with a loud voice. Thus, people are sensitive to the link between motion cues and vocal cues, and this link appears to become even more apparent when a speaker shows expressive behaviors. Future work will have to refine and validate the methods applied and investigate how mismatches between communication channels affect the impressions that people form of politicians.
- Subjects
NONVERBAL communication; GESTURE; BODY language; IMPRESSION formation (Psychology); VOCAL cues
- Publication
Politics & the Life Sciences, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 2, p104
- ISSN
0730-9384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/pls.2017.23