Evidence in the study included in the article has demonstrated that people are not only sensitive to the information contained in concrete imagistic gesture, but furthermore, that they combine this gestural information with the accompanying speech in order to understand the full semantic meaning that a speaker conveys in a message. The studies found that individuals do combine the information contained in metaphoric gestures with that contained in speech and that the meaning of the utterance is demonstrably affected by the presence of a gesture-speech mismatch.
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The authors briefly touch upon the study of social perception, which in their definition, is how people from judgements about others. They pointed out that the study of social perception has been an important focus for research in the social psychology field. There is a study that was discussed in the article. In a study that was conducted then talked about in the article, no clear pattern of accuracy was found. At the end, the authors discussed the time course of social judgements and the reasoning behind the varying results for the one-part and two-part scenes that were examined in the study.
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