scholarly journals Thin Slices of Athletes’ Nonverbal Behavior Give Away Game Location: Testing the Territoriality Hypothesis of the Home Game Advantage

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 147470491877645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Furley ◽  
Geoffrey Schweizer ◽  
Daniel Memmert
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Behavior ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Stimulus Material ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Thin Slices ◽  
Home Advantage ◽  
Thin Slices Of Behavior ◽  
Home Game ◽  
At Home

The present research investigated whether perceivers could detect who is playing at home or away in soccer matches based on thin slices of professional (Experiment 1) and amateur (Experiment 3) athletes’ nonverbal behavior prior to the match and whether perceivers rated athletes playing at home relatively higher on behavioral dimensions (Experiments 2 and 3) linked to territoriality. In Experiment 1 ( N = 80), participants watched short videos depicting soccer players prior to a UEFA Champions League match and rated whether athletes were more likely to be playing at home or away. In Experiment 2 (two groups N = 102 and N = 101), perceivers rated these videos in terms of assertiveness, dominance, and aggression. In Experiment 3, we replicated the procedure of Experiments 1 and 2 with different stimulus material from amateur soccer ( N = 112). Participants could significantly differentiate between home playing and away playing athletes (Experiment 1: d = 0.44 and Experiment 3: d = 1.07). Experiments 2 and 3 showed that perceivers rated professional and amateur soccer players higher on assertiveness ( d = 0.34–0.63), dominance ( d = 0.20–0.55), and aggression ( d = 0.16–0.49) when playing at home compared to playing away. Findings are supportive of evolutionary accounts of nonverbal behavior, ecological approaches to person perception, and the thin slices of behavior hypothesis by demonstrating that humans change their nonverbal behavior depending on game location. We discuss the relevance of the present findings for the home advantage in sports.

scholarly journals The Expression of Success: Are Thin-Slices of Pre-performance Nonverbal Behavior Prior to Throwing Darts Predictive of Performance in Professional Darts?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Furley ◽  
Daniel Memmert
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Behavior ◽  
Motor Performance ◽  
Stimulus Material ◽  
Nonverbal Cues ◽  
Subsequent Performance ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Thin Slices ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Perceptual Motor Performance ◽  
Valid Information

Abstract The present research attempted to test how skilled people are at predicting perceptual-motor performance of professional darts players based on short observations of pre-performance nonverbal behavior. In four thin-slices experiments (total N = 490) we randomly sampled stimulus material from the 2017 World Championships of Darts showing short video recordings of the players immediately before throwing darts. Participants were asked to estimate the points scored for the respective throws. Results across four experiments, all of which were successfully replicated in direct replication attempts, supported the hypothesis that pre-performance nonverbal behavior of professional darts players gives valid information to observers about subsequent performance tendencies. The present research is the first to show that highly skilled individuals seem to display nonverbal cues that observers can pick up to draw inferences about how these individuals are likely to perform.

scholarly journals Identifying Racial Minorities' Nationality: Non-verbal Accent as a Cue to Cultural Group Membership

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvette D. Alcott ◽  
Susan E. Watt
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Lay Theory ◽  
Thin Slices ◽  
Facial Expressions Of Emotion ◽  
Thin Slices Of Behavior ◽  
Source Of Information

Historically, racial appearance has been a common source of information upon which we categorize others, as have verbal accents. Enculturated non-verbal accents which are detected in facial expressions of emotion, hairstyle, and everyday behaviors, have also been found to exist. We investigated the effects of non-verbal accent on categorization and stereotyping when people are exposed to thin slices of behavior. The effects of racial essentialism, which inclines people to categorize and assess others by race, were also tested. In three studies, Australian participants were shown short, muted videos of target individuals performing everyday behaviors. The targets were of a minority (Asian) racial appearance, but half had been interracially adopted as babies and grew up in the Australian mainstream. The other half were foreign nationals who grew up in Asia. In Studies 1 and 2, Australian participants rated each target as Australian or foreign. In both studies, they correctly identified the targets at above chance levels. In Study 3, participants rated the targets on Australian and Asian stereotype traits. They were not told that some targets were Australian and some were foreign, but they nonetheless rated the congruent stereotypes more strongly. Lay theory of race moderated the effect of non-verbal accent, with a weaker effect among participants who endorsed racial essentialism. These preliminary findings reveal subtle effects of non-verbal accent as a cue to cultural group membership and invite further work into the effects of non-verbal accent on person perception and categorization processes.

Judgments of Sexual Orientation and Masculinity–Femininity Based on Thin Slices of Behavior: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1145-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslava Valentova ◽  
Gerulf Rieger ◽  
Jan Havlicek ◽  
Joan A. W. Linsenmeier ◽  
J. Michael Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Thin Slices ◽  
Thin Slices Of Behavior

scholarly journals Plants playing at home: Advantage of native plant seeds for ski slope revegetation in the French Pyrenees

2022 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 106463
Author(s):  
B. Dupin ◽  
B. Durand ◽  
J. Cambecèdes ◽  
N. Fromin
Keyword(s):  
Native Plant ◽  
Plant Seeds ◽  
Home Advantage ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals Having the Second Leg at Home - Advantage in the UEFA Champions League Knockout Phase?

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel J. A. Eugster ◽  
Jan Gertheiss ◽  
Sebastian Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Home Advantage ◽  
At Home

Done in 60 s? Inferring teachers’ subjective well-being from thin slices of nonverbal behavior

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Pretsch ◽  
Barbara Flunger ◽  
Nina Heckmann ◽  
Manfred Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Behavior ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Thin Slices

Nonverbal Behavior in Soccer: The Influence of Dominant and Submissive Body Language on the Impression Formation and Expectancy of Success of Soccer Players

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Furley ◽  
Matt Dicks ◽  
Daniel Memmert
Keyword(s):  
Impression Formation ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Soccer Player ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Outcome Expectation ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Nonverbal Behaviors ◽  
Video Condition ◽  
Point Light ◽  
Better Than

In the present article, we investigate the effects of specific nonverbal behaviors signaling dominance and submissiveness on impression formation and outcome expectation in the soccer penalty kick situation. In Experiment 1, results indicated that penalty takers with dominant body language are perceived more positively by soccer goalkeepers and players and are expected to perform better than players with a submissive body language. This effect was similar for both video and point-light displays. Moreover, in contrast to previous studies, we found no effect of clothing (red vs. white) in the video condition. In Experiment 2, we used the implicit association test to demonstrate that dominant body language is implicitly associated with a positive soccer player schema whereas submissive body language is implicitly associated with a negative soccer player schema. The implications of our findings are discussed with reference to future implications for theory and research in the study of person perception in sport.

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