Body Language More Expressive Than Faces
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Body language can shape first impressions of a person's emotional state, even when attention is focused on facial expression, Netherlands scientists said.
In the experiments, some photographs were altered so, for instance, a fearful facial expression was paired with an angry body posture, which resulted in two "congruent" and two "incongruent" combinations.
Researchers found that when the face and body in the photograph showed conflicting emotions, the participants' judgment of facial expression was hampered and became biased toward the emotion expressed by the body.
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