Gesturing and self-contact of right and left halves of the body: relationship with eye-contact.
We examined the correlations among eye-contact, gesturing, and self-contact behaviors for 26 female university students during different neutral and emotional situations. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between eye-contact and right gesturing in two of four situations (rs, .37, .33) and a significant positive correlation (.33) between left self-contact and eye-contact during an initial relational contact.
D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005639:Frustration; D007839:Functional Laterality; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007697:Kinesics; D011939:Mental Recall; D014110:Touch