Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 1, Pages 23-39Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2711
Keywords
agency; Big Two; body posture; communion; compensation; interpersonal perception
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [AB45/13-1]
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The study found that body posture can influence individual perceptions and interpersonal relationships, with individuals in an expanded posture tending to overestimate their agency, while those in a submissive posture tend to overestimate others' agency and their own communion.
Body posture influences feelings about the self, but little is known about its impact on social cognition more generally. We apply the Big Two framework (Agency/Competence, Communion/Warmth) and study how body posture influences interpersonal perception in a dyadic interaction. In three experiments, we studied dyads with different body postures (Exps. 1 and 2: expanded/restricted; Exp. 3: expanded/neutral). Dyad members worked on a joint task, and rated self and other. Findings showed that participants in an expanded posture rated the self higher and the other lower on agency, whereas those in a submissive (or neutral) posture rated the self lower and the other higher on agency. In Experiment 2, participants in a submissive posture also rated their communion lower. Results are important both for the impact of body posture on interpersonal perception and for context effects in the relationship of Agency versus Communion ratings of self and others.
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