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From Nonverbal Cues to Perception: Personality and Social Attractiveness

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Nonverbal behaviour influences to a significant extent our perception of others, especially during the earliest stages of an interaction. This article considers the phenomenon in two zero acquaintance scenarios: the first is the attribution of personality traits to speakers we listen to for the first time, the second is the social attractiveness of unacquainted people with whom we talk on the phone. In both cases, several nonverbal cues, both measurable and machine detectable, appear to be significantly correlated with quantitative assessments of personality traits and social attractiveness. This provides a promising basis for the development of computing approaches capable of predicting how people are perceived by others in social terms.

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  1. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli, Hugues Salamin & Anna Polychroniou

  2. Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

    Alessandro Vinciarelli & Gelareh Mohammadi

  3. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Gelareh Mohammadi

  4. University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Antonio Origlia

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  1. Department of Psychology, and IIASS, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, sezione di Napoli Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy

    Antonietta M. Esposito

  3. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

  4. Laboratory of Acoustics and Speech Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

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  5. Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anatolia College/ACT, P.O. Box 21021, 55510, Pylaia, Greece

    Vincent C. Müller

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Vinciarelli, A., Salamin, H., Polychroniou, A., Mohammadi, G., Origlia, A. (2012). From Nonverbal Cues to Perception: Personality and Social Attractiveness. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A.M., Vinciarelli, A., Hoffmann, R., Müller, V.C. (eds) Cognitive Behavioural Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_5

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