Perceiving emotions through the kinematics of gait and the influence of adaptation aftereffects

Abstract

There appears to be a common belief that at least some emotions can be perceived from the biological motion of walking. It has long been verified that specific emotions can be perceived from bodily movement in general. However, there has been little verification in the literature that this is in fact true for the specific activity of walking. This study investigated the perception of four emotions (i.e. happy, sad, anger, fear, and neutral) from the kinematics of gait style.

Date of Award	2010
Original language	English