Meaning of ‘attributions’
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“The visual channel in speech and music contains information about the performer’s emotional intent. It was once thought that bodily position encoded the emotional state, while movement only encoded the magnitude of that state; however recent research has shown that adding movement to a presentation adds cues about the emotional state. When comparing dynamic to static presentations, emotional attributions were more accurate in the dynamic presentations.”
While I interpreted the underlined word – attributions above as ‘the action of ascribing a work or remark to a particular author, artist, or person’, which is, I feel, still a bit difficult, I would appreciate, if you kindly re-word it in an easy way.
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I think they mean that they tested performances in front of audiences. They instructed the performers beforehand to exhibit either bodily position or movement and asked the audience to attribute emotions to the performers on a written form. I could not see the link, so this is a guess.
- I think they mean that they tested performances in front of audiences.
- They instructed the performers beforehand to exhibit either bodily position or movement and asked the audience to attribute emotions to the performers on a written form.
- I could not see the link, so this is a guess.
- The passage is psychobabble translated into corpspeak, so it's hard to say.
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I think they mean that they tested performances in front of audiences. They instructed the performers beforehand to exhibit either bodily position or movement and asked the audience to attribute emotions to the performers on a written form. I could not see the link, so this is a guess. The passage is psychobabble translated into corpspeak, so it's hard to say.
0deepcosmosWhen comparing dynamic to static presentations, emotional attributions were more accurate in the dynamic presentations.
The guesses that people made about which emotions were being conveyed by the performers were more accurate when the performers made movements to show these emotions.
Guesses (attributions) in this example may have be
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