{"title":"Can Gestures Give us Access to Thought? A Systematic Literature Review on the Role of Co-thought and Co-speech Gestures in Children with Intellectual Disabilities","authors":"Noémie Lacombe, T. Dias, Geneviève Petitpierre","doi":"10.1007/s10919-022-00396-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-022-00396-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43174121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emmanuel Descroix, Wojciech Świątkowski, Christian Graff
{"title":"Blinking While Speaking and Talking, Hearing, and Listening: Communication or Individual Underlying Process?","authors":"Emmanuel Descroix, Wojciech Świątkowski, Christian Graff","doi":"10.1007/s10919-021-00387-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00387-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Why do eye-blinks activate during conversation? We manipulated informational content and communicative intent exchanged within dyads. By comparison to a silent situation, both emitters and receivers increased their blink rate when the former delivered a treasure hunt route to the latter. When the previously known route was repeated, or when the alphabet was reeled off within the same dyads, the receiver did not increase the rate, although the emitter did. The emitter’s rate increased as well when formulating the route not vocally but silently in an inner voice; none reacted when the emitter was <i>really</i> silent. Therefore, the high rates of spontaneous blinking commonly observed during a conversation can be explained outside of a bilateral communication function. It seems primarily related to individual cognitive processing of afferent or efferent information. The speaker blinks when handling the speech; the listener blinks only when taking heed of useful content.</p>","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying Patterns of Similarities and Differences between Gesture Production and Comprehension in Autism and Typical Development","authors":"N. Dimitrova, Ş. Özçalışkan","doi":"10.1007/s10919-021-00394-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00394-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45926613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Duchenne Smiles of White American College Students in Same-Race and Interracial Interactions","authors":"Nida Bikmen, Allison Koneczny, Karen Caballero","doi":"10.1007/s10919-021-00393-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00393-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46798850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julian Packheiser, Imke Marlene Malek, Jacqueline Sophia Reichart, Laura Katona, Maike Luhmann, Sebastian Ocklenburg
{"title":"The Association of Embracing with Daily Mood and General Life Satisfaction: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.","authors":"Julian Packheiser, Imke Marlene Malek, Jacqueline Sophia Reichart, Laura Katona, Maike Luhmann, Sebastian Ocklenburg","doi":"10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Embracing has several positive health effects, such as lowering blood pressure and decreasing infection risk. However, its association with general life satisfaction and daily mood has not been researched in detail. Here, we used a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) approach to monitor the daily number of embraces and daily mood in a sample of 94 adults over the course of seven days. We found that embracing frequency differed slightly over the week, with embracing occurring more frequently on weekends than on weekdays. We also found that higher daily embracing frequencies were associated with better daily mood using multilevel modeling. Only singles benefitted from increases in average embracing regarding their life satisfaction, whereas individuals in a relationship were unaffected by their embracing tendencies. Although our results are strictly correlational and do not indicate any direction or causality, embraces may be important for daily mood and general life satisfaction, but their efficacy seems to depend on relationship status.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8.</p>","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9362016/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ken Fujiwara, Christopher D Otmar, Norah E Dunbar, Mohemmad Hansia
{"title":"Nonverbal Synchrony in Technology-Mediated Interviews: A Cross-Cultural Study.","authors":"Ken Fujiwara, Christopher D Otmar, Norah E Dunbar, Mohemmad Hansia","doi":"10.1007/s10919-022-00416-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10919-022-00416-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Technology-mediated communication has changed the way we interact. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, this trend became even more pronounced. Media interviews are no exception. Yet, studies on nonverbal behaviors, especially nonverbal synchrony during such mediated settings, have been scarce. To fill the research gap, this study investigated synchronized patterns between interview hosts' and guests' facial emotional displays and upper body movement during mediated interviews recorded in the countries in Western (mainly the US, with the addition of the UK) and Eastern cultures (Japan). The interviews were categorized into information- or entertainment-driven interviews, depending on the social attributes of the guest. The time series of the valence in facial displays and upper body movement was automatedly measured using FaceReader and Motion Energy Analysis software, respectively, which was analyzed in terms of simultaneous movements, a primary component of synchrony. As predicted, facial synchrony was more prevalent in information-driven interviews, supporting the motivational and strategic account of synchrony. In addition, female-hosted interviews had a higher degree of synchrony, especially in information-driven interviews. Similar patterns were seen in movement synchrony, although not significant. This study is the first evidence of synchrony in technology-mediated interviews in which a host and a guest appear on split-screen to inform or entertain audiences. However, no cultural differences in synchrony were observed. Situational demands in front of the interactants and the goal-driven nature of communication seemed to play a more prominent role than cultural differences in nonverbal synchrony.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10919-022-00416-3.</p>","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9476419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40371837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discriminative and Affective Processing of Touch: Associations with Severity of Skin-picking.","authors":"Anne Schienle, Albert Wabnegger","doi":"10.1007/s10919-022-00415-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-022-00415-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Skin-picking is a common behavior in the general population that generally serves emotion regulation (e.g., reduction of tension). However, recent research suggests it may also be associated with changes in tactile processing sensitivity. Along these lines, the present study examined whether the severity of skin-picking (SOSP) is related to discriminative and affective touch processing. A total of 160 participants (59 males, 101 females, mean age = 31 years) completed two tactile discrimination tests (two-point discrimination, surface texture discrimination), as well as a well-validated affective touch paradigm (delivery of soft/slow touch, which is found to be generally pleasant). A hierarchical regression analysis was carried out to investigate the association between SOSP, age, sex, and indicators of tactile sensitivity. Replicating previous findings, females reported higher SOSP. While the performance in the discrimination tests did not predict SOSP, affective touch processing was associated with SOSP. Participants with high SOSP reported an urge to pick their skin after being softly touched. This seems paradoxical since previous findings have suggested skin-picking may be carried out to manage negative affective states. Our findings add to the literature describing altered sensitivity and responsivity to specific tactile stimuli in individuals with excessive skin-picking.</p>","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9596513/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40671506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Just Seconds of Laughter Reveals Relationship Status: Laughter with Friends Sounds More Authentic and Less Vulnerable than Laughter with Romantic Partners.","authors":"Sally D Farley, Deborah Carson, Susan M Hughes","doi":"10.1007/s10919-022-00406-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10919-022-00406-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The dual pathway model posits that spontaneous and volitional laughter are voiced using distinct production systems, and perceivers rely upon these system-related cues to make accurate judgments about relationship status. Yet, to our knowledge, no empirical work has examined whether raters can differentiate laughter directed at friends and romantic partners and the cues driving this accuracy. In Study 1, raters (<i>N</i> = 50), who listened to 52 segments of laughter, identified conversational partner (friend versus romantic partner) with greater than chance accuracy (<i>M</i> = 0.57) and rated laughs directed at friends to be more pleasant-sounding than laughs directed at romantic partners. Study 2, which involved 58 raters, revealed that prototypical friendship laughter sounded more spontaneous (e.g., natural) and less \"vulnerable\" (e.g., submissive) than prototypical romantic laughter. Study 3 replicated the findings of the first two studies using a large cross-cultural sample (<i>N</i> = 252). Implications for the importance of laughter as a subtle relational signal of affiliation are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9247916/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40573772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying Signatures of Perceived Interpersonal Synchrony.","authors":"Eric Novotny, Gary Bente","doi":"10.1007/s10919-022-00410-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-022-00410-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interpersonal synchrony serves as a subtle, yet powerful bonding mechanism in social interactions. Problematically, the term 'synchrony' has been used to label a variety of distinct aspects of interpersonal coordination, such as postural similarities or movement activity entrainment. Accordingly, different algorithms have been suggested to quantify interpersonal synchrony. Yet, it remains unknown whether the different measures of synchrony represent correlated features of the same perceivable core phenomenon. The current study addresses this by comparing the suitability of a set of algorithms with respect to their association with observers' judgments of dyadic synchrony and leader-followership. One-hundred fifteen observers viewed computer animations of characters portraying the movements of real dyads who performed a repetitive motor task with instruction to move in unison. Animations were based on full-body motion capture data synchronously collected for both partners during the joint exercise. Results showed most synchrony measures significantly correlated with (a) perceived synchrony and (b) the perceived level of balance of leading/following by each dyad member. Phase synchrony and Pearson correlations were associated most strongly with the observer ratings. This might be typical for intentional, structured forms synchrony such as ritualized group activities. It remains open if these findings also apply to spontaneous forms of synchrony as, for instance, occurring in free-running conversations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47747,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonverbal Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9361934/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}