Talk:Posture (psychology)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Davidson College supported by WikiProject Psychology and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2012 Q1 term. Further details are available on the course page.

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Grammar
The grammar of this page needs to be fixed. There are too many errors in sentence structure and it's quite distracting.

Original research
Significant parts of this article appear to violate WP:SYNTH and other elements of WP:NOR. Sine there are few citations it's hard to know exactly how much. There are many sections without footnotes, so it's just a guess which source, if any,supports their assertions. There are two photographs with long captions analyzing the postures of those pictured. What's our source for those analyses?  Will Beback   talk    06:12, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Should someone Change this?
"An attractive male body is one in which the arms are wider than the hips, while female beauty formula contains the appropriate ratio of the circumference to hip circumference of the waist. Deck must be narrower, but not too narrow. Perceived attractiveness of such figures of the body is linked to evolutionary conditioning preferences in choosing a partner and the amount of sex hormones - testosterone and oestrogen." It contains no sources, and even if it did, it would be a Point of View (can be found in The appearance of the body and the appeal of authority). 86.153.119.96 (talk) 16:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Style edit complete, can't do much about citations
This article was originally a translation from the Polish wiki. I've edited it to read like English rather than Polglish, but I can't do much about adding sources. I couldn't find much doing a quick search of google, and don't have time to dig farther in depth. Any help adding sources for many of the unsourced claims would be appreciated. I've flagged in with ref improve, more footnotes, and Original research boxes till then. Clegs (talk) 10:06, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

APS Wikipedia Initiative
My name is Morgan Mobell2012 (talk) 04:50, 19 April 2012 (UTC)mobell2012 and for my senior capstone psychology class, in part with APS, I will be editing this Wikipedia page by adding more credible sources and a cognitive psychology section on perception and posture. More specifically, I will be adding a section reporting from 15 journal articles on how emotions affect body posture and how body posture effects emotions. Any help or advice you have will be great! I will include a common methodology, results, and a discussion/implication section. I will also try to fix the grammar errors that plague this article.

The sources are:

1. Mondloch, C. J. (2012). Sad or fearful? The influence of body posture on adults’ and children’s perception of facial displays of emotion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111(2), 180-196.

2. Hadjikhani, N., & de Gelder, B. (2003). Seeing Fearful Body Expressions Activates the Fusiform Cortex and Amygdala. Current Biology, 13(24), 2201-2205.

3. Dael, N., Mortillaro, M., & Scherer, K. R. (2011). Emotion expression in body action and posture. Emotion, 1-17.

4. Briñol, P., Petty, R. E., & Wagner, B. (2009). Body posture effects on self-evaluation: A self-validation approach. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39(6), 1053-1064.

5. Riskind, J. H., & Gotay, C. C. (1982). Physical posture: Could it have regulatory or feedback effects on motivation and emotion? Motivation and Emotion, 6(3), 273-298

6. Sawada, M., Suda, K., & Ishii, M. (2003). Expression of emotions in dance: Relation between arm movement characteristics and emotion. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 97(3, Pt 1), 697-708.

7. Coulson, M. (2008). Expressing emotion through body movement: A component process approach. In L. Cañamero, R. Aylett, L. Cañamero, R. Aylett (Eds.), Animating expressive characters for social interaction (pp. 71-86). Amsterdam Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

8. Darwin, C. (1872). The expression of the emotions in man and animals. London, England: John Murray.

9. de Meijer, M. (1989). The contribution of general features of body movement to the attribution of emotions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 13, 247–268.

10. Montepare, J., Koff, E., Zaitchik, D., & Albert, M. (1999). The use of body movements and gestures as cues to emotions in younger and older adults. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 23(2), 133-152.

11. Wallbott, H. G. (1998). Bodily expression of emotion. European Journal of Social Psychology ,28, 879 – 896.

12. McHugh, J., McDonnell, R., O’Sullivan, C., & Newell, F. N. (2010). Perceiving emotion in crowds: The role of dynamic body postures on the perception of emotion in crowded scenes. Experimental Brain Research, 204(3), 361-372

13. James, W. T. (1932). A study of the expression of bodily posture. Journal of General Psychology, 7, 405-437.

14. Haase, R. F., & Tepper, D. T. (1972). Nonverbal components of empathic communication. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 19(5), 417-424.

15. Smith-Hanen, S. S. (1977). Effects of nonverbal behaviors on judged levels of counselor warmth and empathy. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 24(2), 87-91 Mobell2012 (talk) 04:50, 19 April 2012 (UTC)Mobell2012

Below are the final sources I used for the APS Wikipedia Initiative.

1.	Munger, edited by Margaret P. (2003). The history of psychology : fundamental questions. New York, N.Y [etc.]: Oxford University Press.

2.	Dael, Nele; Mortillaro, Marcello, Scherer, Klaus R. (2011). "Emotion expression in body action and posture”, Emotion, 1-17.

3.	Rossberg-Gempton, Irene; Gary Poole (1993). "The effect of open and closed posture on pleasant and unpleasant emotions". The Arts in Psycotherapy 20: 75-82.

4.	Oosterwijk, Suzanne; Rotteveel, Mark, Fischer, Agneta H., Hess, Ursula (2009). "Embodied emotion concepts: how generating words about pride and disappointment influences posture". European Journal of Social Psychology 39 (3): 457–466.

5.	Briñol, Pablo; Petty, Richard E., Wagner, Benjamin (2009). "Body posture effects on self-evaluation: A self-validation approach". European Journal of Social Psychology 39 (6): 1053–1064.

6.	Riskind, John H.; Gotay, Carolyn C. (1982). "Physical posture: Could it have regulatory or feedback effects on motivation and emotion?". Motivation and Emotion 6 (3): 273–298.

7.	McHugh, Joanna Edel; McDonnell, Rachel, O’Sullivan, Carol, Newell, Fiona N. (2009). "Perceiving emotion in crowds: the role of dynamic body postures on the perception of emotion in crowded scenes". Experimental Brain Research 204 (3): 361–372.

8.	Hadjikhani, Nouchine; de Gelder, Beatrice (2003). "Seeing Fearful Body Expressions Activates the Fusiform Cortex and Amygdala". Current Biology, 13 (24): 2201–2205.

9.	Sawada, Misako; Kuzuhiro Suda, Ishii Motonobu (2003). "Expression of emotions in dance: relation between arm movement characteristics and emotion". Perceptual and Motor Skills 97: 697-708.

10.	Hergenhahn, Matthew H. Olson, B.R. (2009). An introduction to theories of learning (8th ed. ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

11.	Wittman, Phyllis; Sheldon, William H., Katz, Charles J. (1948). "A study of the relationship between constitutional variations and fundamental psychotic behavior reactions.” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 108 (6): 470–476.

12.	Haase, Richard F.; Tepper, Donald T. (1972). "Nonverbal components of empathic communication.". Journal of Counseling Psychology, 19 (5): 417–424.

13.	Smith-Hanen, Sandra S. (1977). "Effects of nonverbal behaviors on judged levels of counselor warmth and empathy”. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 24 (2): 87–91.

14.	Montepare, J., Koff, E., Zaitchik, D., & Albert, M. (1999). The use of body movements and gestures as cues to emotions in younger and older adults. Journal Of Nonverbal Behavior, 23(2), 133-152.

15.	Coulson, M. (2004). Attributing Emotion to Static Body Postures: Recognition Accuracy, Confusions, and Viewpoint Dependence. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 28(2), 117-139. Mobell2012 (talk) 05:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)mobell2012

Student edit timeline, Spring 2012
As a senior capstone project, students are working improve the content of selected articles. More details are on the course page. Student first edits are due April 20, then we'll spend a week reviewing. Final project is due by May 14, 2012. Thanks for your encouragement and support. Greta Munger (talk) 15:15, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Peer Edit #1
Hey Morgan!

Good job on adding credible sources, but you cited them in APA format. You’ll need to go back and cite it in Wikipedia fashion. For example, add your references to the ‘references’ section and delete your bibliography. I like how you added a methods section, but it doesn’t make sense to have it at the end. I would move that up to the beginning of the article. It isn’t really clear that your sections are for psychology, so I would add a section that says, “in psychology” or something along those lines, and then put the information under that. I know your intention was to focus on posture in psychology, but a lot of the information already present in the article pertains to psychology. Thus, I think you should sort through that, deleting what is inappropriate and adding to what is appropriate, so you build up a nice result section. Also, I can kind of tell that you just added your sections to the end, so it would be nice if you could integrate your information in with the work that has already been done. If you do that, you might want to watch out for the pictures they have (I realize you didn’t add them), because I know there are copyright rules for pictures, and I feel a couple of these might violate those rules.

As far as your actual writing, I think I would separate some of the information you have in the introduction into a ‘Theory” section, and stick with explaining the basics in the intro. “Other factors affecting posture” doesn’t have any citations. I would definitely add some specific results. I would also add some link out sources, like to Charles Darwin’s wiki page, as an example. Good start! Most of your writing is clear and well-worded, so good job! Congrats on the work you've done so far! Dana Westerkam (talk) 16:14, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Peer Edit #2
You're clearly off to a good start. As was mentioned earlier, you will want to switch to the Wikipedia method of footnoting your sources. It isn't hard, and it gives the article a clean look which links all of your points with their source material. I'm sure Dr. Munger, our course rep or any of us would be happy to run through it with you. It seems odd to lable a section halfway through the article "Introduction". Perhaps a different heading if you are trying to indicate a transition. You would have to decide what you believe that transition is about.

The writing seems strong and flows well. You might elaborate a bit in the common methods section on one of the main studies to really hammer out how one of them was performed to give the reader a better idea of how the research was done, perhaps in more of a step by step fashion. I also agree with the above comment that you might consider integrating your writing into the rest of the article. The formatting of the first half of the article is rather different from your part of the article, and this is rather noticeable. Your research was well done and you get into many theories that the article did not already cover. Good work so far Morgan! --Dowiggins (talk) 20:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Bibliography Deleted
This was deleted from the page because it was not cited anywhere on the page. It may have been a part of the original article before it was translated from the Polish Wikipedia site. Mobell2012 (talk) 21:47, 9 May 2012 (UTC)Mobell2012


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