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. 2016 Jan 11;6:2030. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02030

Table 2.

Motor elements that predict each emotion.

Emotion Motor element Estimate Stderr Lower CL Upper CL Z P-value
Anger Effort-Weight:Strong 1.1388 0.1091 0.9249 1.3527 10.43 <0.0001
Anger Effort-Time:Sudden 0.8119 0.1648 0.4889 1.1349 4.93 <0.0001
Anger Shape-Sagital:Advance 0.7609 0.2033 0.3624 1.1594 3.74 0.0002
Anger Effort-Space:Direct 0.7511 0.1714 0.4152 1.0870 4.38 <0.0001
Fear Shape-Sagital:Retreat 0.8506 0.1013 0.6521 1.0492 8.40 <0.0001
Fear Shape-Change:Condense 0.7775 0.1650 0.4541 1.1008 4.71 <0.0001
Fear Effort-Flow:Bind 0.7691 0.1913 0.3942 1.1440 4.02 <0.0001
Fear Space-Sagital:Back 0.7355 0.1563 0.4292 1.0417 4.71 <0.0001
Fear Shape-Horizontal:Enclose 0.6673 0.1818 0.3110 1.0235 3.67 0.0002
Happiness Body-Action:Jump 1.5676 0.3901 0.8029 2.3322 4.02 <0.0001
Happiness Phrase-Rhythmicity:Reinitiating 1.0527 0.2275 0.6068 1.4985 4.63 <0.0001
Happiness Shape-Horizontal:Spread 0.9202 0.1967 0.5348 1.3057 4.68 <0.0001
Happiness Effort-Flow:Free 0.9031 0.2024 0.5063 1.2998 4.46 <0.0001
Happiness Effort-Weight:Light 0.8489 0.2049 0.4474 1.2504 4.14 <0.0001
Happiness Space-Vertical:Up 0.7313 0.2073 0.3250 1.1376 3.53 0.0004
Happiness Shape-Vertical:Rise 0.6943 0.2171 0.2688 1.1198 3.20 0.0014
Sadness Effort-Weight:Passive 1.0635 0.1566 0.7566 1.3703 6.79 <0.0001
Sadness Body-Action:Arms to upper body 1.0045 0.1853 0.6414 1.3676 5.42 <0.0001
Sadness Shape-Vertical:Sink 0.9287 0.1837 0.5687 1.2888 5.06 <0.0001
Sadness Body-Parts:Head 0.7372 0.1888 0.3672 1.1073 3.91 <0.0001

This table describes the motor elements that significantly predicted each emotion based on the logistic regression that was fitted to predict the emotion (anger, fear, happiness, or sadness) felt during the movement of a certain motif. The regression was fitted using each motor element score (e.g., the score for “Effort-flow: free”) as a predictor. As can be seen from the table, each emotion was predicted by a unique set of motor elements, and each motor element was a significant predictor for only one emotion: none of the motor elements significantly predicted more than one emotion. Stderr, Standard error of the estimate; LowerCL, lower confidence interval; UpperCL, upper confidence interval.