

A similar study showed that participants who were placed in a hunched posture reported were more likely to feel stressed compared to participants who assumed a relaxed position.At this point you might be sick and tired of my ranting and raving over the products created by Andrew Kramer and the Video CoPilot family, but this review just fuels my enthusiasm further. Participants’ attitudes in the confident but not doubtful posture, significantly affected their self-reported attitudes. Results from this study proved in favor of the self-validation theory. Mood and confidence level were also measured.

Participants then had to self-evaluate on how good of a job candidate, interviewee, performer, and how satisfied they would be as an employee. An example of this is an experiment where participants had to think and then write positive qualities of themselves in a confident or doubtful posture. Self-Validation theory is when a participant’s posture has a significant affect on his or her self-evaluation of their emotions.Researchers studied sign language and found that even non-sign language users can determine emotions from only hand movements. Another example is the fact that anger is characterized by forward whole body movement. The theories that guide research in this field are the self-validation or perception theory and the embodied emotion theory. This research can be traced back to Charles Darwin when he studied emotion and movement in humans and animals. Currently, many studies have shown that certain patterns of body movements are indicative of specific emotions. Psychological studies have shown the effects of body posture on emotions. In humans, posture can provide a significant amount of important information on nonverbal communication and emotional cues. Ryan lists off his 2014 Filmmakers Christmas List!
