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Sevdalis, Vassilis and Raab, Markus ORCID: 0000-0001-6546-1666 (2016). Individual differences in athletes' perception of expressive body movements. Psychol. Sport Exerc., 24. S. 111 - 118. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 1878-5476

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Abstract

Objectives: Understanding others' actions depends on the observer's individual characteristics and sensorimotor experience. Motor performance domains, such as sports and the performing arts, provide optimal situations to investigate the determinants of action perception. We investigated athletes' perceptual identification of expression intensity in body movements. Design: A within-subjects design was used. Method: Participants watched point-light displays (1000 ms long) depicting expressive and inexpressive dance movements. The task was to identify the dancer's intended expression intensity. Results: The results indicate that expressive body movements can be reliably identified, with judgement accuracy correlating with self-report empathy indices, intuitive/deliberate decision-making preferences, and indices of sports training. Only years of sports training could predict perceptual identification accuracy. Conclusions: We discuss the findings in relation to motor and cognitive emotional contributions to action simulation. The potential of cross-domain transfer of motor expertise for boosting perceptual judgements and a hierarchical role of factors eliciting action simulation are also outlined. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Sevdalis, Vassilis UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Raab, Markus UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6546-1666 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-277127
DOI:	10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.02.001
Journal or Publication Title:	Psychol. Sport Exerc.
Volume:	24
Page Range:	S. 111 - 118
Date:	2016
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1878-5476
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language POINT-LIGHT DISPLAYS; VISUAL-PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; EXPERTISE; EMOTION; MUSIC; PERFORMANCE; EXPERIENCE; EMPATHY; SPORTS Multiple languages Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism; Psychology, Applied; Psychology; Sport Sciences Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/27712