Emotion matters: Different psychophysiological responses to expressive and non-expressive full-body movements

We explore dance video clip stimuli as a means to test human observers' accuracy in detecting genuine emotional expressivity full-body movements. Stimuli of every-day-type expressions emotions usually use culturally very recognizable actions (e.g. fist shaking for anger, etc). However, expressive movement can be created contain fully abstract The results from subtle variations the body movements expressor, and cannot recognised by observers via particular shaking, Forty-one participants watched rated 24 pairs short videos –from published normalised library– randomised order (N = 48). Of each carefully matched pair, one version sequence had been danced emotionally genuinely (clip a), while other same b) –while technically correct– without any expressivity. Participants (i) (to their accuracy; block 1), (ii) how much they liked (an implicit measure response (“liking”); 2). clips that were intended more (part 1: ratings), those than non-expressive 2: liking ratings). Besides, galvanic skin differed, depending on category watching (expressive vs. non-expressive), this relationship was modulated interceptive arts experience. Results are discussed relation Body Precision Hypothesis Constructed Emotion.