Are there non-verbal signals of guilt?

Julle-Danière, E, Whitehouse, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2607-5492, Mielke, A, Vrij, A, Gustafsson, E, Micheletta, J and Waller, BM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6303-7458, 2020. Are there non-verbal signals of guilt? PLoS One, 15 (4): e0231756. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Guilt is a complex emotion with a potentially important social function of stimulating cooperative behaviours towards and from others, but whether the feeling of guilt is associated with a recognisable pattern of nonverbal behaviour is unknown. We examined the production and perception of guilt in two different studies, with a total of 238 participants with various places of origin. Guilt was induced experimentally, eliciting patterns of movement that were associated with both the participants’ self-reported feelings of guilt and judges’ impressions of their guilt. Guilt was most closely associated with frowning and neck touching. While there were differences between self-reported guilt and perception of guilt the findings suggest that there are consistent patterns that could be considered a non-verbal signal of guilt in humans.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	PLoS One
Creators:	Julle-Danière, E., Whitehouse, J., Mielke, A., Vrij, A., Gustafsson, E., Micheletta, J. and Waller, B.M.
Publisher:	Public Library of Science
Date:	24 April 2020
Volume:	15
Number:	4
ISSN:	1932-6203
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1371/journal.pone.0231756 DOI 1372195 Other
Rights:	© 2020 Julle-Danière et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	13 Oct 2020 12:53
Last Modified:	31 May 2021 15:13
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/41278

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