Making moves: how sex and race are detected from biological motion

Brain A. Eiler; Rachel W. Kallen; Michael J. Richardson

Making moves

how sex and race are detected from biological motion

Brain A. Eiler, Rachel W. Kallen, Michael J. Richardson

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Abstract

Humans are able to successfully detect characteristics about others that serve to guide interaction, yet the source of this information is unclear. We hypothesized that biological motion specifies sex and race as these invariant categorical characteristics often guide interaction. Results indicated that movement kinematics are necessary but not sufficient for sex detection and that race is detectable when movement is produced by Caucasians but not African Americans, and only when kinematic information is embedded in body structure. These results imply that social psychological perspectives on person perception should be integrated with ecological psychological perspectives on affordances in order to understand social cognition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Editors	D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, P. P. Maglio
Place of Publication	Austin, TX
Publisher	Cognitive Science Society
Pages	638-643
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9780991196722
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (37th : 2015) - Pasadena, United States Duration: 22 Jul 2015 → 25 Jul 2015

Conference

Conference	Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (37th : 2015)
Country	United States
City	Pasadena
Period	22/07/15 → 25/07/15

Keywords

social cognition
kinematic specification of dynamics
person perception
biological motion

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Eiler, Brain A. ; Kallen, Rachel W. ; Richardson, Michael J. / Making moves : how sex and race are detected from biological motion. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. editor / D. C. Noelle ; R. Dale ; A. S. Warlaumont ; J. Yoshimi ; T. Matlock ; C. D. Jennings ; P. P. Maglio. Austin, TX : Cognitive Science Society, 2015. pp. 638-643

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Eiler, BA, Kallen, RW & Richardson, MJ 2015, Making moves: how sex and race are detected from biological motion. in DC Noelle, R Dale, AS Warlaumont, J Yoshimi, T Matlock, CD Jennings & PP Maglio (eds), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, pp. 638-643, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (37th : 2015), Pasadena, United States, 22/07/15.

Making moves : how sex and race are detected from biological motion. / Eiler, Brain A.; Kallen, Rachel W.; Richardson, Michael J.

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. ed. / D. C. Noelle; R. Dale; A. S. Warlaumont; J. Yoshimi; T. Matlock; C. D. Jennings; P. P. Maglio. Austin, TX : Cognitive Science Society, 2015. p. 638-643.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

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