Can Co-Speech Gestures Alone Carry the Mental Time Line?

Autor/inn/en	Winter, Bodo; Duffy, Sarah E.
Titel	Can Co-Speech Gestures Alone Carry the Mental Time Line?
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46 (2020) 9, S.1768-1781 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Winter, Bodo)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000836
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Speech Communication; Correlation; Time Perspective; Figurative Language; Social Influences; Perspective Taking; Motion; Interpersonal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Korrelation; Zeitbezug; Sozialer Einfluss; Zukunftsperspektive; Bewegungsablauf; Interpersonale Kommunikation
Abstract	Time and space have been shown to be interlinked in people's minds. To what extent can co-speech gestures influence thinking about time, over and above spoken language? In this study, we use the ambiguous question "Next Wednesday's meeting has been moved forward two days, what day is it on now?" to show that people either respond "Monday" or "Friday," depending on gesture. We manipulated both language (using either the adverb "forward," or the adverb "backward") and gesture (forward and backward movement), thus creating matches and mismatches between speech and gesture. Results show that the speech manipulation exerts a stronger influence on people's temporal perspectives than gesture. Moreover, the effect of gesture disappears completely for certain hand shapes and if non-movement language is used ("changed by two days" as opposed to "moved by two days"). We additionally find that the strength of the gesture effect is moderated by likability: When people like the gesturer, they are more prone to assuming their perspective, which completely changes the meaning of forward and backward gestural movements. Altogether, our results suggest that gesture does play a role in thinking about time, but this role is auxiliary when compared with speech, and the degree to which gesture matters depends on one's social relation to the gesturer. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01