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GESTURE IDENTIFICATION: SOUTHERN AFRICAN RATINGS COMPARED WITH EUROPEAN RESPONSES *
Author(s) -
Scott P.A.,
Charteris J.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598608247620
Subject(s) - gesture , psychology , universality (dynamical systems) , cross cultural , cognitive psychology , social psychology , communication , linguistics , anthropology , sociology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
A cross‐cultural comparison of responses by European and Southern African decoders to the pictorial gestures encoded in the 20‐item test battery of Morris et al. (1979) was conducted. Results confirm the universality of gesture recognition, while demonstrating the direction and extent of significant differences in the meanings attributed to specific gestural cues. Implications for further study in the cross‐cultural mosaic of Southern Africa are advanced.