Smith, R. A. and Cross, E. S. (2023) The McNorm library: creating and validating a new library of emotionally expressive whole body dance movements. Psychological Research, 87(2), pp. 484-508. (doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01669-9) (PMID:35385989) (PMCID:PMC8985749)
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Abstract
The ability to exchange affective cues with others plays a key role in our ability to create and maintain meaningful social relationships. We express our emotions through a variety of socially salient cues, including facial expressions, the voice, and body movement. While significant advances have been made in our understanding of verbal and facial communication, to date, understanding of the role played by human body movement in our social interactions remains incomplete. To this end, here we describe the creation and validation of a new set of emotionally expressive whole-body dance movement stimuli, named the Motion Capture Norming (McNorm) Library, which was designed to reconcile a number of limitations associated with previous movement stimuli. This library comprises a series of point-light representations of a dancer’s movements, which were performed to communicate to observers neutrality, happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. Based on results from two validation experiments, participants could reliably discriminate the intended emotion expressed in the clips in this stimulus set, with accuracy rates up to 60% (chance = 20%). We further explored the impact of dance experience and trait empathy on emotion recognition and found that neither significantly impacted emotion discrimination. As all materials for presenting and analysing this movement library are openly available, we hope this resource will aid other researchers in further exploration of affective communication expressed by human bodily movement.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Cross, Professor Emily |
| Authors: | Smith, R. A., and Cross, E. S. |
| College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Psychology & Neuroscience |
| Journal Name: | Psychological Research |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISSN: | 0340-0727 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1430-2772 |
| Published Online: | 06 April 2022 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in Psychological Research 87(2): 484-508 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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