Evidence of Big Five and Aggressive Personalities in Gait Biomechanics

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• 作者：Liam Satchell ; Paul Morris ; Chris Mills ; Liam O’Reilly…
• 关键词：Gait biomechanics ; Trait aggression ; Big Five personality
• 刊名：Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：41
• 期：1
• 页码：35-44
• 全文大小：792KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Personality and Social Psychology; Sociology, general; Social Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3653
• 卷排序：41

文摘

Behavioral observation techniques which relate action to personality have long been neglected (Furr and Funder in Handbook of research methods in personality psychology, The Guilford Press, New York, 2007) and, when employed, often use human judges to code behavior. In the current study we used an alternative to human coding (biomechanical research techniques) to investigate how personality traits are manifest in gait. We used motion capture technology to record 29 participants walking on a treadmill at their natural speed. We analyzed their thorax and pelvis movements, as well as speed of gait. Participants completed personality questionnaires, including a Big Five measure and a trait aggression questionnaire. We found that gait related to several of our personality measures. The magnitude of upper body movement, lower body movement, and walking speed, were related to Big Five personality traits and aggression. Here, we present evidence that some gait measures can relate to Big Five and aggressive personalities. We know of no other examples of research where gait has been shown to correlate with self-reported measures of personality and suggest that more research should be conducted between largely automatic movement and personality.