Perception of Sex from Complex Body Movement in Young Children

Ecological Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 231-240

  Crawley, Rosalind A ^a   Good, James M M ^b   Still, Arthur W ^b   Valenti, S Stavros ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034412229     PISSN: 10407413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15326969ECO1203_3     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Barclay, C. D., Cutting, J. E., & Kozlowski, L. T. (1978). Temporal and spatial factors in gait perception that influence gender recognition. Perception & Psychophysics, 23, 145-152.
2. Bassili, J. N. (1978). Facial motion in the perception of faces and of emotional expression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4, 373-379.
3. Bassili, J. N. (1979). Emotion recognition: The role of facial movement and the relative importance of upper and lower areas of the face. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 2049-2058.
4. Benenson, J. F., Liroff, E. R., Pascal, S. J., & Della Cioppa, G. (1997). Propulsion: A behaviour expression of masculinity. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 37-50.
5. Bernstein, N. (1967). The coordination and regulation of movements. Oxford, England: Pergamon.
6. Berry, D. S. (1991). Child and adult sensitivity to gender information in patterns of facial motion. Ecological Psychology, 3, 349-366.
7. Bower, T. G. R. (1989). The rational infant. New York: Freeman.
8. Cutting, J. E. (1978). Generation of synthetic male and female walkers through manipulation of a biomechanical invariant. Perception, 7, 393-405.
9. Cutting, J. E., Proffitt, D. R., & Kozlowski, L. T. (1978). A biomechanical invariant for gait perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4, 357-372.
10. Fisher, R. A. (1958). Statistical methods for research workers. London: Oliver & Boyd.
11. Freeman, J. V., Cole, T. J., Chinn, S., Jones, P. R. M., White, E. M., & Preece, M. A. (1995). Cross sectional stature and weight reference curves for the UK, 1990. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 73, 17-24.
12. Frykholm, G. (1983). Perceived identity I: Recognition of others by their kinematic patterns (Uppsala Psychological Reports No. 351). Uppsala, Sweden: University of Uppsala.
13. Johansson, G. (1973). Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 9, 353-356.
14. Kozlowski, L. T., & Cutting, J. E. (1977) Recognizing the sex of a walker from a dynamic point-light display. Perception & Psychophysics, 21, 575-580.
15. Kujawski, J. H., & Bower, T. G. R. (1993). Same-sex preferential looking during infancy as a function of abstract representation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 11, 201-209.
16. Preece, M. A., Freeman, J. V., & Cole, T. J. (1996). Sex differences in weight in infancy: Published centile charts for weight have been updated. British Medical Journal, 313, 1486.
17. Runeson, S. (1994). Perception of biological motion: The KSD-principle and the implications of a distal versus proximal approach. In G. Jansson, S.S. Bergström, & W. Epstein (Eds.), Perceiving events and objects (pp. 383-405). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
18. Runeson, S., & Frykholm, G. (1983). Kinematic specification of dynamics as an informational basis for person and action perception: Expectation, gender recognition, and deceptive intention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 112, 580-610.
19. Runeson, S., & Frykholm, G. (1986). Kinematic specification of gender and gender expression. In V. McCabe & G. J. Balzano (Eds.), Event cognition: An ecological perspective (pp. 259-273). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
20. Still, A. W., & White, A. P. (1981). The approximate randomisation test as an alternative to the F test in analysis of variance. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 34, 243-252.
21. Williams, P. L. (Ed.). (1995). Gray's anatomy: The anatomical basis of medicine and surgery (38th ed.). New York: Churchill Livingstone.