Dance is ubiquitous among humans and has received attention from several disciplines.
Ethnographic documentation suggests that dance has a signaling function in social …

Humans spontaneously attribute a wide range of traits to strangers based solely on their
facial features. These first impressions are known to exert striking effects on our choices and …

Perception, identification, and understanding of others' actions from motion information are
vital for our survival in the social world. A breakthrough in the understanding of action …

In our social lives, movement's attractiveness greatly affects interpersonal cognition, and gait
kinematics mediates walkers' attractiveness. However, no model using gait kinematics has …

Applications such as virtual tutors, games, and natural interfaces increasingly require
animated characters to take on social roles while interacting with humans. The effectiveness …

Recognizing others' humanity is fundamental to how people think about and treat each
other. People often ascribe greater humanness to groups that they socially value, but do …

Behavioral observation techniques which relate action to personality have long been
neglected (Furr and Funder in Handbook of research methods in personality psychology …

Communication with conversational agents (CA) has become increasingly important. It
therefore is crucial to understand how individuals perceive interaction with CAs and how the …

People express their own emotions and perceive others' emotions via a variety of channels,
including facial movements, body gestures, vocal prosody, and language. Studying these …

People read dominance, trustworthiness and competence into the faces of politicians but do
they also perceive such social qualities in other nonverbal cues? We transferred the body …