Trent R Boulter's scientific contributions

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This study identifies how audiences use nonverbal cues to judge specific character traits in political figures. Participants assessed pictures that showed the example politician making eye contact with another person with highest scores. His hand positions received the lowest character-trait scores. Findings show that participants associated direct...
Conference Paper
The purpose of this study is to discover which nonverbal behaviors – specific facial expressions, and gestures – lead viewers to attribute specific character traits to political figures. That is, when a candidate looks directly at someone, or the camera, do people come away with the impression that she is honest? It builds on the substantive dimens...

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... These results suggest that the properties and individual differences in the facial ensemble of each emotion affect emotional perceptions. impression formation [3]. The underlying mechanisms of facial emotion recognition have been investigated in previous studies about sociability [4,5]. ...