Decoding Visual Dominance: Attributions of Power Based on Relative Percentages of Looking While Speaking and Looking While Listening

Dovidio, John F.; Ellyson, Steve L.

doi:10.2307/3033933

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“…As described by Dovidio, the proportions of look-speak and look-listen in a conversation provide information about dominance and power (Dovidio and Ellyson, 1982). This finding has been verified with automatic features by Hung et al (Hung et al, 2008).…”

Section: Multimodal Featuressupporting

confidence: 66%

Emergent leaders through looking and speaking: from audio-visual data to multimodal recognition

Sanchez-Cortes

Aran

Kumar

et al. 2012

J Multimodal User Interfaces

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In this paper we present a multimodal analysis of emergent leadership in small groups using audio-visual features and discuss our experience in designing and collecting a data corpus for this purpose. The ELEA AudioVisual Synchronized corpus (ELEA AVS) was collected using a light portable setup and contains recordings of small group meetings. The participants in each group performed the winter survival task and filled in questionnaires related to personality and several social concepts such as leadership and dominance. In addition, the corpus includes annotations on participants' performance in the survival task, and also annotations of social concepts from external viewers. Based on this corpus, we present the feasibility of predicting the emergent leader in small groups using automatically extracted audio and visual features, based on speaking turns and visual attention, and we focus specifically on multimodal features that make use of the looking at participants while speaking and looking at while not speaking measures. Our findings indicate that emergent leadership is related, but not equivalent, to dominance, and while multimodal features bring a moderate degree of effectiveness in inferring the leader, much simpler features extracted from the audio channel are found to give better performance.

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Section: Multimodal Featuressupporting

confidence: 66%

Emergent leaders through looking and speaking: from audio-visual data to multimodal recognition

Sanchez-Cortes

Aran

Kumar

et al. 2012

J Multimodal User Interfaces

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“…However, gazing has more functions than communicating interest alone. For example, direct gaze may signal dominance (Dovidio & Ellyson, 1982). Also, gazing at attractive others may be an intrinsically pleasant activity, but not necessarily a behavior that communicates interest.…”

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Gazing Behavior During Mixed-Sex Interactions: Sex and Attractiveness Effects

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We investigated to what extent the length of people's gazes during conversations with opposite-sex persons is affected by the physical attractiveness of the partner. Single participants (N = 115) conversed for 5 min with confederates who were rated either as low or high on physical attractiveness. From a mating strategy perspective, we hypothesized that men's increased dating desire towards highly attractive confederates would lead to longer periods of gazing, whereas women's gazing would be less influenced by their dating desire towards highly attractive confederates. Results confirmed our hypothesis, with significantly increased gazing for men in the high attractiveness condition but no significant differences in women in the two attractiveness conditions. Contrary to past research findings, there was no significant sex difference in the size of the effect of physical attractiveness on dating desire. The results were discussed in terms of preference for physically attractive partners and communication strategies during courtship.

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“…What does the experience of power correlate with in the phenomenological moment? Studies seeking answers to this question have found that contextual shifts in the individual's power lead to, for example, variation in cortisol (Ray & Sapolsky, 1992;Sapolsky & Ray, 1989) and testosterone (Bernhardt, 1997;Dabbs, 1997;Gladue, Boechler, & McCaul, 1989;Mazur & Booth, 1998), linguistic and paralinguistic behavior (Dovidio & Ellyson, 1982;Hall, Coats, & LeBeau, 2005;Tiedens & Fragale, 2003), as well as strategic social behavior and mood (Moskowitz, 1994).…”

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A Reciprocal Influence Model of Social Power: Emerging Principles and Lines of Inquiry

Keltner

Kleef

Chen

et al. 2008

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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Decoding Visual Dominance: Attributions of Power Based on Relative Percentages of Looking While Speaking and Looking While Listening

Cited by 149 publications

References 27 publications

Emergent leaders through looking and speaking: from audio-visual data to multimodal recognition

Emergent leaders through looking and speaking: from audio-visual data to multimodal recognition

Gazing Behavior During Mixed-Sex Interactions: Sex and Attractiveness Effects

A Reciprocal Influence Model of Social Power: Emerging Principles and Lines of Inquiry

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