Emotion Expression in Body Action and Posture
Emotion Expression in Body Action and Posture
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DOI：
10.1037/a0025737
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发表时间：
2012-10-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Scherer, Klaus R.
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作者：
Dael, Nele;Mortillaro, Marcell;Scherer, Klaus R.
情感交流研究强烈关注面部和声音作为表达方式，而对身体其他部位的研究相对较少。与早期的假设相反，身体动作只表明情绪的强度，最近的研究表明，身体动作和姿势也传达了情绪的特定信息。然而，由于缺乏基于理论框架的生产研究，对潜在机制的深入理解受到了阻碍。在这项研究中，我们采用身体动作和姿势（BAP）编码系统来研究10名专业演员在描绘12种情绪时所使用的身体运动类型和模式。我们调查了这些表达模式在多大程度上支持了基本情绪理论和二维理论的外显或内隐预测。以及成分评价理论。总体结果部分支持不同的理论方法。他们发现，身体运动的几种模式系统地出现在特定情绪的描绘中，从而允许情绪分化。尽管少数情绪的原型是由一种特定的模式表达的，但大多数情绪是由多种模式可变地表达的，其中许多可以解释为反映了情绪的功能成分，如评估模式和行动准备。结论是，在这一欠发达地区的进一步工作应以适当的理论框架为指导，以便更系统地设计实验和明确的假设检验。
Emotion communication research strongly focuses on the face and voice as expressive modalities, leaving the rest of the body relatively understudied. Contrary to the early assumption that body movement only indicates emotional intensity, recent studies have shown that body movement and posture also conveys emotion specific information. However, a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms is hampered by a lack of production studies informed by a theoretical framework. In this research we adopted the Body Action and Posture (BAP) coding system to examine the types and patterns of body movement that are employed by 10 professional actors to portray a set of 12 emotions. We investigated to what extent these expression patterns support explicit or implicit predictions from basic emotion theory, bidimensional theory. and componential appraisal theory. The overall results showed partial support for the different theoretical approaches. They revealed that several patterns of body movement systematically occur in portrayals of specific emotions, allowing emotion differentiation. Although a few emotions were prototypically expressed by one particular pattern, most emotions were variably expressed by multiple patterns, many of which can be explained as reflecting functional components of emotion such as modes of appraisal and action readiness. It is concluded that further work in this largely underdeveloped area should be guided by an appropriate theoretical framework to allow a more systematic design of experiments and clear hypothesis testing.