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Hand gestures and perceived influence in small group interaction
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- A laboratory study was carried out to establish the relative importance of verbal and gestural behavior, as well as their interaction, for perceived social influence in more or less competitive small groups. Forty women (psychology students) participated in leaderless small group discussions of different sizes (fourmember and eight-member): at the end, each member rated the perceived influence in decision-making of every other member. Verbal dominance coding is based on traditional quantitative conversational dominance (number of talk turns). Gestural coding (conversational, ideational, object-adaptor, self-adaptor gestures) is based on classical gesture classifications. Beside a substantial effect of verbal dominance, the main result is that frequency of object-adaptors and conversational (only in large groups) and ideational (in both small and large groups) gestures increases perceived influence scores particularly when the verbal dominance of the speaker is low.
- Subjects :
- Male
Linguistics and Language
Persuasive communication
Decision Making
Persuasive Communication
Language and Linguistics
Young Adult
Verbal and nonverbal dominance
Group interaction
Humans
General Psychology
Social influence
hand gestures
Gestures
Social perception
Verbal Behavior
perceived influence
small group
verbal and non-verbal dominance
verbal and nonverbal dominance
Hand gesture
Perceived influence
Group Processes
Leadership
Dominance (ethology)
Social Perception
Small group
Female
Psychology
Social psychology
Coding (social sciences)
Gesture
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bc9547d10ed9e87b2b78ce1f91af0666