The communicative value of conversational hand gestures
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The communicative value of spontaneous hand gestures accompanying a spoken message is examined by conducting three experiments. The three used an altered referential communication task where the speakers were videotaped while they were describing a stimulus to a partner who was asked to guess and select from a list of the stimulus the speaker is describing. Each of the three experiments involved a stimulus type different from the others. Results showed that, in the three experiments, communication accuracy was better than chance. However, accuracy was not improved by having the listener look at the gestures.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 1995
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What determines people's fairness judgments? Identification and outcomes influence procedural justice evaluations under uncertainty
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A study is conducted to determine whether people's views on procedural justice judgments are influenced by their level of social identification with the group enacting the procedures and the outcomes associated with the procedure. The findings show that high levels of identification and desirable outcomes promote relatively positive perceptions of procedural justice.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 2007
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Judgments of communicative intent in conversation
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A research was conducted to assess the degree of consensus in social judgment and to examine the agreement in judgments of communicative intentions that was affected by conversational perspective. The study found a high level of consensus in participantsE judgments of the intentions, underlying each others' messages, and also in observers' judgments of intent.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 2004
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