Do people gesture more when instructed to

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ID12824630
AuthorsFey Parrill (0000-0003-3462-210X, Case Western Reserve University, corresponding author), John Cabot (0000-0002-0029-0699, Case Western Reserve University), Hannah Kent (Case Western Reserve University), Kelly Chen (0000-0003-1473-864X, Case Western Reserve University), Ann Payneau (Case Western Reserve University)
Year2016
Volume15
Issue3
Pages357-371
Publication date2016-11-28
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGesture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1568-1475 • E-ISSN: 1569-9773
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/gest.15.3.05par
OpenAlexW2558169441
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited26

Does being instructed to gesture encourage those with low gesture rates to produce more gestures? If participants do gesture more when asked to, do they produce the same kinds of gestures? Does this vary as a function of the type of discourse being produced? We asked participants to take part in three tasks, a quasi-conversational task, a spatial problem solving task, and a narrative task, in two phases. In the first they received no instruction, and in the second they were asked to gesture. The instruction to gesture did not change gesture rate or gesture type across phases. We suggest that while explicitly asking participants to gesture may not always achieve higher gesture rates, it also does not negatively impact natural behavior

Cognitive psychology · Function (biology · Gesture · Gesture recognition · Linguistics · Narrative · Natural (archaeology · Task (project management · Communication · Computer Science · Engineering · Hearing Impairment and Communication · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation · Artificial Intelligence

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