Do conversational hand gestures communicate

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6205068
AutoresRobert M Krau (0000-0002-1238-3489), Robert M Krauss (Columbia University, autor de correspondencia), Palmer Morrel-Samuels, Palmer Morrel‐Samuels (Columbia University), Christina Colasante (Columbia University)
Año1991
Volumen61
Número5
Páginas743-754
Fecha de publicación1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037//0022-3514.61.5.743
PMID1753329
OpenAlexW2077525797
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas78
Referencias citadas13

In 5 experiments, male and female undergraduates viewed gestures and tried to select the words that originally accompanied them; read interpretations of gestures* meanings and tried to select the words that originally had accompanied them; tried to recognize gestures they previously had seen, presented either with or without the accompanying speech; and assigned gestures and the accompanying speech to semantic categories.On all 4 tasks, performance was better than chance but markedly inferior to performance when words were used as stimuli.Judgments of a gesture's semantic category were determined principally by the accompanying speech rather than gestural form.It is concluded that although gestures can convey some information, they are not richly informative, and the information they convey is largely redundant with speech Although spontaneous hand gestures' are ubiquitous accompaniments to conversational speech, neither the process by which they are generated nor the functions they serve for speaker and addressee are well understood.Such gestures are usually assumed to be communicative.However, among researchers and writers who have addressed the subject, there is no clear consensus about the amount and kind of information they convey.Historically, gestures have been endowed with extraordinary communicative powers.Some of the claims seem fanciful at best.Consider the contention of the 16th century

Cognitive psychology · Gesture · Linguistics · Nonverbal communication · Communication · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology