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Conscientiousness and Extraversion relate to responsiveness to tempo in dance
Petri ToiviainenJustin LondonMarc ThompsonBirgitta BurgerEmily Ecarlsonsubject
AdultMaleDancemedia_common.quotation_subjectBiophysicsIndividuality050109 social psychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyEmpathy050105 experimental psychologyKey (music)Developmental psychologyExtraversion PsychologicalIntroversion PsychologicalPartial correlation analysisdancemotion capturePersonalityHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesOrthopedics and Sports MedicineAttentionmusicDancingmedia_commonExtraversion and introversion05 social sciencesConscientiousnessGeneral Medicineaccelerationtempo responsivenesspersonalityTime Perceptionta6131TraitFemaleEmpathyPsychologySocial psychologyConsciencedescription
Previous research has shown broad relationships between personality and dance, but the relationship between personality and specific structural features of music has not been explored. The current study explores the influence of personality and trait empathy on dancers' responsiveness to small tempo differences between otherwise musically identical stimuli, measured by difference in the amount in acceleration of key joints. Thirty participants were recorded using motion capture while dancing to excerpts from six popular songs that were time-stretched to be slightly faster or slower than their original tempi. Analysis revealed that higher conscientiousness and lower extraversion both correlated with greater responsiveness to tempo change. Partial correlation analysis revealed that conscientiousness remained significantly correlated with responsiveness when extraversion was controlled, but not vice versa. No effect of empathy was found. Implications are discussed.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-11 | Human Movement Science |