Body movements and the verbal encoding of aggressive affect.

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Examined the relationship between kinetic behavior, defined by a scoring system of object- and body-focused hand movements, and direction of verbal aggression. Motor behavior and concomitant verbal samples were scored from videotaped interview segments of 24 female college students. Intercorrelational analysis revealed that object-focused movements were related to overt hostility (r = .49) and that this relationship varied with subcategories of such movements: for speech primacy, r = .49; for representational, r = .36; and for nonrepresentational motor primacy movements, r = .09. Body-focused movements were related to covert hostility (r = .53) and specifically to hand-to-hand motions (r = .52). Analysis of peak-trough periods within interviews revealed significant covariations between movements and forms of hostility. Qualitative clause-by-clause analysis elucidated the nature of the movement-hostility contiguity. Results are interpreted in terms of the differential role of object- and body-focused movements in the encoding of affect. (25 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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