The Motivation of Expressive Movement

Eisenberg, Philip

doi:10.1080/00221309.1940.10544070

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“…Most work in the area of expressive movements is based upon impression; that is, judges make judgments about certain movements and attempt to relate them to certain personality characteristics. Eisenberg (17,18,19,20), who utilized this approach and the direct measurement of expression, emphasizes that stereotyping is a large source of error in the matching techniques. Thus, the judges have a stereotype of what a "dominant" person will do and then match dominant personality characteristics to this stereotype.…”

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Expressive graphic movements and their relationship to temperament factors.

Talmadge¹

1958

Psychological Monographs: General and Applied

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This study has two main purposes: first, a theoretical purpose, that of attempting to contribue to further understanding of the unity of personality through graphic-motor movements; and secondly, to test certain hypotheses relating graphic-motor movements to an aspect of personality known as temperament.It has long been assumed that individual characteristics of gesture and movement reveal personality differences. Often we make judgments about a person by his walk, speech, or posture. We speak about an energetic person when the walk is rapid and there appears to be purpose in his stride. When the bearing is erect, the individual seems to be sure of himself, and we speak of selfconfidence or dominant attitude.

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Section: The Problem Historical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%