Decoding discrepant nonverbal cues.

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Developed a videotaped test of accuracy in decoding discrepant auditory and visual nonverbal cues (the Nonverbal Discrepancy Test). In three-quarters of the test items, the affect communicated in the audio modality is incongruent with the affect communicated in the video modality. In Study 1, with 41 college students, some Ss saw only the video portion of the test, some heard only the audio portion, and others judged both the audio and the video cues. Intergroup comparisons showed that Ss were more influenced by video cues than by audio cues (video primacy effect). In Study 2, 73 junior high school Ss, 150 high school Ss, and 95 college Ss took the full discrepancy test. In all 3 samples, Ss' judgments of the affects communicated in the discrepancy test were again more influenced by video cues than by audio cues. There was more video primacy for females than for males, for discrepancies involving the face than for discrepancies involving the body, and for discrepancies concerning degree of positivity than for discrepancies concerning degree of dominance. In decoding very discrepant messages, as compared to slightly discrepant ones, Ss adopted a strategy characteristic of judges of deception: They attended relatively more to the audio cues than to the video cues. (36 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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