Previous research has shown that nonverbal gestures can be externally cued using movies about insects as the stimulus. This study was designed to test whether 55 subjects (33 women and 22 men) reading and discussing a short passage would yield similar responses. Analysis indicated that nonverbal gestures can be externally cued by reading a passage and discussing it and that the frequency of these gestures varies with the subject matter being read/discussed.
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