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Emotional body-distant gestures are a prominent feature of winning athletes. Because negative emotions have been associated to increased self-touch behaviour, we investigated the hypothesis that athletes change from a more body-distant nonverbal hand movement behaviour when winning to a body-focused behaviour when losing. Nonverbal hand movements of professional right-handed tennis athletes were video-taped during competition and analyzed by certified raters using the NEUROpsychological GESture(NEUROGES)System. The results showed that losing athletes increase their  irregular, on body,  and  phasic on body  hand movements, particularly with the left hand.  Emotion / attitude rise  gestures with the right hand characterised winning athletes. The data suggest that the nonverbal hand movements of athletes serve different neuropsychological functions. Winners nonverbally express their positive feelings by body-distant gestures but change towards their own body to regulate stress when losing. HighlightsIrregular, on body,  and  phasic on body  hand movements serve self-regulation when losing during competitionAthletes express positive emotions by  emotion / attitude rise  gesturesNonverbal expression of emotions underlie hemispherically lateralised processes Irregular, on body,  and  phasic on body  hand movements serve self-regulation when losing during competition Athletes express positive emotions by  emotion / attitude rise  gestures Nonverbal expression of emotions underlie hemispherically lateralised processes

Neuropsychological functions of nonverbal hand movements and gestures during sports