If We Doubt a Person's Verbal Report of the Emotion

question 54

Multiple Choice

If we doubt a person's verbal report of the emotion he or she is feeling, which of the following would be the most reliable nonverbal indicator to check?

• A) kinesics
• B) body posture
• C) proxemics
• D) facial expressions

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Definitions:

Negatively Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail is longer on the left side of the distribution's peak, indicating that the majority of values are to the right of the mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or spread of a set of data points relative to its mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that indicates the dispersion or variability of a set of data points in relation to their mean.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a data set or distribution differ from each other and from the central value (mean or median).