TABLE 5.

Exploratory correlations between voter perceptions of political leaders’ receptivity, formidability, and charisma, and their nonverbal behaviors (study 2).

	Receptivity	Formidability	Charisma
Eyes/brows
Look while speaking	0.28	0.27	0.40***
Blinks	–0.15	0.13	–0.02
Brow frowns	–0.03	–0.06	–0.05
Brow raises	0.28	–0.05	0.22
Head/mouth
Nods	0.13	–0.04	0.11
Shakes	0.03	–0.00	0.06
Smiles	0.15	–0.13	0.10
Frowns	0.08	0.14	0.05
Hand gestures
Palms to speaker	0.27	0.33	0.42***
Palms to audience	0.25	0.29	0.34
Points	0.18	0.13	0.21
Fists	0.01	0.11	–0.02
Gesture intensity, expansiveness, direction
Intensity	0.36	0.49***	0.50***
Outside body frame	0.41***	0.38***	0.46***
Inside body frame	0.22	0.50***	0.45***
Toward the body	0.39***	0.21	0.34

Data were based on 30-s thin slices (the unit of analysis). Each political leader was sampled twice, giving two separate presentations (see text), N = 68. ***p < 0.001.