Differential attribution of personality based on multi-channel presentation of verbal and nonverbal cues

Scherer, Klaus R.; Scherer, Ursula; Hall, Judith A.; Rosenthal, Robert

doi:10.1007/bf00309288

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“…Our findings here are rooted in the underpinnings reported by Scherer et al (1977) regarding the importance of the interaction between verbal and non-verbal information in the formation of impressions, and are consistent with those found in other studies, where coherence is established through a series of non-verbal signals that sought coherence or otherwise with verbal information (Weisbuch et al, 2010). These authors, however, used a molar perspective and a methodology different to the one considered here (videos vs. photos).…”

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“…The inferences we make on other people stem from social relations, where the verbal information (what we know about their lives) and non-verbal information (the emotion they express) surrounding them are continuously interacting (see Scherer, Scherer, Hall, & Rosenthal, 1977). This interaction is modulated by different variables, such as the coherence between verbal and non-verbal information, which have facilitating effects on emotional recognition in three-monthold babies (see Walker-Andrews, 2008).…”

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The timely expression of coherence helps cause the right impression

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<p>An analysis was conducted on the modulating role that the emotional coherence between verbal and non-verbal information plays on the formation of impressions. The study involved 301 subjects who made inferences on a woman’s personality based on verbal information on her life (positive, negative), the emotional coherence between verbal and non-verbal information (coherent, neutral, incoherent), and the type of coding, referring to the moment when the verbal and non-verbal information was presented to them (simultaneously, separately). The results showed that when the information is positive, coherent and the coding has been made separately, the person is perceived to be more stable, pleasant and sociable. The results are discussed, along with their implications for the adaptive processes present in natural contexts.</p>

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The timely expression of coherence helps cause the right impression

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“…This apparent contradiction might disappear if the dimensions on which the ratings are being made are taken into account (se Ekman et al, 1980). While voice seems to best convey status and competence cues (Scherer, Scherer, Hall, & Rosenthal, 1977;Waldert-Lauth & Scherer, 1983), the visual channel may be particularly suitable for the communication of the affective dimensions of social relationships (DePaulo & Rosenthal, 1979).…”

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Vocal cues to deception: A comparative channel approach

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The study investigated the leakage potential of different voice and speech cues using a cue isolation and masking design. Speech samples taken from an earlier experiment were used in which 15 female students of nursing dissimulated negative affect produced by an unpleasant movie or told the truth about positive af[ect following a pleasant movie. Several groups of judges rated these speech samples in five conditions: (1) forward or clear, (2) electronic filtering, (3) random splicing, (4) backwards, (5) pitch inversion, (6) tone-silence sequences. The results show that vocal cues do indeed carry leakage information and that, as reflected in the differences among the conditions masking different types of cues respectively, voice quality cues may be centrally" implicated. In addition, gender differences in decoding ability are discussed.The question of whether deception can be detected on the basis of a variety of behavioral cues provided by the deceiver has sparked a sizable number of studies in the past decades. First tried to assess the possibility of using polygraph methods for lie detection (Orne, Thackray, & Paskewitz, 1972;Lykken, 1974;Podlesny & Raskin, 1977). Then the interest of psychologists studying nonverbal behavior was awakened by Ekman and Friesen's (1969) seminal article on "nonverbal leakage and clues to deception." Initially attention was directed primarily to nonvocal aspects of behavior, particularly the face and the body (Ekman & Friesen, 1974). More recently, the vocal channel of communication has been studied intensively in terms of its potential for the detection of deception (see Scherer, 1981; Zuckerman, DePaulo, & Rosenthal, 1981, for overviews).In many studies of the nonverbal behavior of deceivers, the instruments of detection were naive human observers who were presented with samples of deceiver behavior in different channels of communication (such as audio, visual, or audiovisual combined). The purpose of these studies was to assess the degree to which a particular channel leaks information about deception (Ekman, Friesen, & Scherer, 1976;Ekman, Friesen, O'Sullivan, & Scherer, 1980; DePaulo, Zuckerman, & Rosenthai, 1980). Contrary to cue measurement studies in which objective coding methods are used to determine the covariation of deception with particular facial or vocal cues (see Ekman & Friesen, 1974;Ekman, et al., 1976;Scherer, 1979Scherer, , 1981, the observer-attribution method makes it difficult to isolate the particular cues that carry the leakage and that allow observers to attribute deception correctly. One approach to identifying potentially significant cues is to use cue-masking and isolation methods (Scherer & Scherer, 1982). The masking of content in speech has a venerable history in vocal communication research (Starkweather, 1956) and has since been further refined (See Scherer, 1982).In the collaborative study reported here, many of the available masking and isolation techniques for vocal cues were used with the same set of speech samples from a study investigating ...

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“…Thus, visibility-deprived partners would not suffer from reduced interpersonal informations since the verbal channel as well as the nonverbal vocal channel whose informative richness is now evidenced (e.g. Scherer, Scherer, Hall and Rosenthal, 1977;Apple, Streeter and Krauss, 1979), remain available, both probably carrying the meanings vehiculated by the parallel gestures and movements. Moreover, recent data suggest that the common Visible behaviour in social interaction 127 point of view on a partner in a social interaction is one of audio primacy.…”

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confidence: 99%