Further studies in expressive movement

The Motivation of Expressive Movement

“…70, and that the performance of similar tasks with different muscle groups are just as consistent ( 2,4,7). But the median uncorrected intercorrelation of a large number of expressive movements was found to be .05 by Allport and Vernon, .07 by Eisenberg, and .055 by Carlson (an average intercorrelation for the latter).…”

“…But at present it has not been demonstrated that there is a manner of behaving typical of any specific kind of attitude, since attitudes are probably essentially individual in nature. 4 Because each person has developed in a completely individual fashion, despite physiological and cultural limitations, he must of necessity have developed individual attitudes and ways of behaving. For example, two individuals may have developed a basic feeling of insecurity.…”