Judging Expressive Movement: II. Judgments of Dominance-Feeling from Motion Pictures of Gait
Judging Expressive Movement: II. Judgments of Dominance-Feeling from Motion Pictures of Gait
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判断表现力动作:II。
DOI:
10.1080/00224545.1939.9713373
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发表时间:
1939
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Philip B. Reichline
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作者:
P. Eisenberg;Philip B. Reichline
We form impressions of our friends largely through their overt behavior, not only by what they do, but how they do it. The manner or style of behavior has been called “expressive movements” by Allport and Vernon who define them as “adaptive acts considered as dependent less upon external and temporary conditions than upon enduring qualities of personality”(2, p. 23). From other investigations we know (a) that people vary markedly in their expressive movements;(b) that expressive movements are fairly stable characteristics of the organism and relatively independent of mood or situation;(c) that expressive movements are to some extent interrelated within a given organism; and (d) that expressive movements are related to other expressions of personality (2, 4, 5). The question is now raised: How well and in what ways do people judge personality from these expressive movements? This becomes an important social question when we consider that a large part of our judgments of our associates are formed on the basis of these expressive movements. What happens to social relationships when the judgments of personalities are wrong or partially wrong? We can only in part hope to answer this question, and have set ourselves the problem of studying judgments of dominance-feeling from motion pictures of gait, an experimentally isolated expressive movement. Incidentally we should like to test the application of the matching method “as a method for establishing the quantitative relationships between qualitative aspects of personality”(9).