According to work done in the labs at Queens, our overall emotional and intellectual state influences the way we hold ourselves and the way we walk. Researchers at the Biomotion Lab there have taken this seeming truism to the next level, by mapping out the walking gait of various individuals in various internal states.
They provide many demonstrations of how their work in cognitive psychology and kinetics influences the physical stance and motion of individuals. One that I like: an online modeling program where you can manipulate and test for yourself what happens to a person's body language as they feel stressed or relaxed, happy or sad.
I am paying attention to this type of thing these days, as I attempt to figure out how to create a research method that would allow me to map people's digitized physical cues (e.g. emoticons, avatar expressions, etc. ) to their unwired corporeal expressivity, as shown in their body language. I'm hoping to present a paper on this at the upcoming Trials & Tribulations symposium of digital research methods, co-managed by Kelly.
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What a fascinating theory! This would be a most interesting study to make.
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