Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands

Ellen Blythe, Lúcia Garrido, Matthew R. Longo,
‘Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands’, SienceDirect, Elsevier BV, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027722002487 (bezocht op 9 september 2022)

Emotion recognition may depend on different mechanisms; certain body parts, such as the hands, may be especially important for perceiving emotion. (…) While emotions were recognized most accurately from full bodies, recognition performance from the hands was more accurate than for other body parts. (…) Results demonstrate that emotions can be decoded from body parts. Furthermore, certain features, such as the hands, are more important to emotion perception than others. We found that while emotions were most accurately recognized from full bodies, emotions were also classified accurately when images of isolated hands, arms, heads and torsos were seen. (…) That the hands are key to emotion perception is important evidence in its own right. It could also be applied to interventions for individuals who find it difficult to read emotions from faces and bodies.

Gegevens

Ellen Blythe, Lúcia Garrido, Matthew R. Longo,
Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands,
Cognition,
Volume 230,
2023,
105260,
ISSN 0010-0277,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105260.