Abstract des Autors

This chapter deals with empirical findings across academic disciplines concerning the relation between movement behaviour and cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes that are relevant for developing the methodology in movement behaviour research. The first section of this chapter addresses the question what empirical evidence supports the paradigm that human movement behaviour is linked to cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes. The implications of these findings for movement research methodology are discussed. Empirical evidence that movement behaviour is linked to cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes legitimates the application of movement behaviour analysis as a valid method to explore these processes. However, for this purpose numerous questionnaires are already available which are economic psychological research tools. Therefore, the second section focuses on the question what specific potential movement behaviour analysis bears for the investigation of emotional, cognitive, and interactive processes. The third and fourth sections illustrate the profit of analyzing all movements of a part of the body and of segmenting the ongoing stream of movement behaviour into natural units as compared to pre-selecting certain types of movement for the analysis. Finally, the fifth section discusses why it is useful to distinguish between right side, left side, and bilateral movements when analyzing limb movements such as hand gestures.