The Bodily Expressive Action Stimulus Test (BEAST). Construction and Validation of a Stimulus Basis for Measuring Perception of Whole Body Expression of Emotions

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 2; p. 181
• Main Authors: de Gelder, Beatrice, Van den Stock, Jan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 01.01.2011; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: action; body expression; emotion; Psychology; test validation; action; test validation; emotion; body expression

Whole body expressions are among the main visual stimulus categories that are naturally associated with faces and the neuroscientific investigation of how body expressions are processed has entered the research agenda this last decade. Here we describe the stimulus set of whole body expressions term...