Basic body language may be all you need to spot a professional manager in seconds, new research has revealed.
Psychologists conducted five different studies and analyzed all 608 subjects, finding a consistent connection between those who usually stand straight in front of the viewer and ‘.an ugly and deceitful personality.’
The acquisition adds a new twist the ‘power pose,’ argument Big legs, protruding from the chest are sometimes believed to give confidence to their adopters.
‘We were surprised that non-social factors were more closely related to attitude,’ the study authors said, ‘rather than depression and bad thoughts.’
The group suspects that the interests may represent ‘the arbitrary use of fear to advance natural resources at the expense of others.’
‘Previous research on clinical disorders found that patients with depression had higher scores,’ researchers from McGill University explained.
‘And although we saw some evidence of that in our experience,’ they said, ‘anti-social behavior was strongly correlated.’
Researchers suspect that a preference for a tall person may reflect ‘the use of fear to enhance one’s access to resources in nature at the expense of others’.
The first lesson asked for topics to fill out a human survey and provide four pictures of their natural posture from different angles: front, back, left and right.
The images were analyzed using a machine learning tool called OpenPOSE, which identified key points of the body — the placement or angle of the neck, eye line, shoulders, spine, and hips — to assign measurable numbers to their movements.
The second study looked at the correlations found, while the third asked 104 students to take the superlative and subjunctive forms of the goal, based on their interpretation, to double-check.
At this point, the team found that participants who naturally adopted a ‘power pose’ were more successful in having a sense of ‘social dominance’.
The test also scored high ‘primary’ or perhaps genetic psychopathywhile also reducing empathy and regulating anger.
“The most common feature of this type of research is the sample,” Wainio-Theberge and Dr Armony added. ‘We studied young adults, many of whom were university students and many of whom identified themselves as women.’
‘Although we have recently extended this to many years, up to 80 years,’ as he said PsyPost‘There is a huge difference between the majority of people that we are not capturing in this study.’
Psychiatrists at McGill University tracked their subjects to find a correlation between antisocial or psychopathic traits (x-axis above) and the attitude of each subject (y-axis above)
The subjects’ images were analyzed using a machine learning tool called OpenPOSE, which identified key points of the body (shown in image d, above) and calculated angles to assign measurable numbers to their posture, such as the angles of the neck, shoulder, back, and spine. hip placement
The group’s fourth study added a physical and brain component, recording the muscle activity of two neck muscles in 129 subjects.
An advanced electromyography (EMG) device was used to track a single muscle used in the head and neck, the sternocleidomastoid, and one that helps stabilize the shoulders and neck, the upper trapezius.
The McGill team found that the joint of the head and neck, the sternocleidomastoid, played the strongest role in what was thought to be ‘control’.
Their fifth and final lecture, published with the rest in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology last November, he tried to find links between other similar attitudes, ‘Machiavellianism (distortion), narcissism, and cruelty.’
These results strengthened the personality correlates, revealing that the most consistent behaviors were followed by those with a high desire for power and a willingness to resort to manipulative or aggressive means to get what they want.
But the researchers felt that this should not be interpreted as an excuse for a slouch.
‘People shouldn’t discount that standing straight can change your personality (for better or for worse),’ they said.
“We saw a correlation between body posture and personality and therefore we cannot say causality,” he explained.
University of Massachusetts Amherst psychologist Dr Susan Krauss Whitbourne, who looked at McGill’s research, admitted that there were some flaws in the research.
‘A person who seems to want to use his body to intimidate you (even if he’s not completely successful),’ he wrote in Psychology Today, ‘seems like a good person to stay away from.’
