The ability to exchange affective cues with others plays a key role in our ability to create and maintain meaningful social relationships. We express our emotions through a variety of socially salient cues, including facial expressions, the voice, and body movement. While significant advances have been made in our understanding of verbal and facial communication, to date, understanding of the role played by human body movement in our social interactions remains incomplete. To this end, here we describe the creation and validation of a new set of emotionally expressive whole-body dance movement stimuli, named the Motion Capture Norming (McNorm) Library, which was designed to reconcile a number of limitations associated with previous movement stimuli. This library comprises a series of point-light representations of a dancer’s movements, which were performed to communicate to observers neutrality, happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. Based on results from two validation experiments, participants could reliably discriminate the intended emotion expressed in the clips in this stimulus set, with accuracy rates up to 60% (chance = 20%). We further explored the impact of dance experience and trait empathy on emotion recognition and found that neither significantly impacted emotion discrimination. As all materials for presenting and analysing this movement library are openly available, we hope this resource will aid other researchers in further exploration of affective communication expressed by human bodily movement.

与他人交换情感暗示的能力在我们建立和维持有意义的社会关系的能力中起着关键作用。我们通过各种社会显着线索表达我们的情绪，包括面部表情、声音和身体动作。虽然我们对语言和面部交流的理解取得了重大进展，但迄今为止，对人体运动在我们的社交互动中所起的作用的理解仍然不完整。为此，我们在这里描述了一组新的情感表达全身舞蹈运动刺激的创建和验证，称为运动捕捉规范 (McNorm) 库，旨在调和与先前运动刺激相关的许多限制。该库包含一系列舞者动作的点光源表示，执行这些操作是为了向观察者传达中立、快乐、悲伤、愤怒和恐惧。根据两个验证实验的结果，参与者可以可靠地区分该刺激集中的剪辑中表达的预期情绪，准确率高达 60%（机会 = 20%）。我们进一步探讨了舞蹈体验和特质同理心对情绪识别的影响，发现两者都不会显着影响情绪辨别力。由于展示和分析这个运动库的所有材料都是公开的，我们希望这个资源能帮助其他研究人员进一步探索人体运动表达的情感交流。参与者可以可靠地区分该刺激集中的剪辑中表达的预期情绪，准确率高达 60%（机会 = 20%）。我们进一步探讨了舞蹈体验和特质同理心对情绪识别的影响，发现两者都不会显着影响情绪辨别力。由于展示和分析这个运动库的所有材料都是公开的，我们希望这个资源能帮助其他研究人员进一步探索人体运动表达的情感交流。参与者可以可靠地区分该刺激集中的剪辑中表达的预期情绪，准确率高达 60%（机会 = 20%）。我们进一步探讨了舞蹈体验和特质同理心对情绪识别的影响，发现两者都不会显着影响情绪辨别力。由于展示和分析这个运动库的所有材料都是公开的，我们希望这个资源能帮助其他研究人员进一步探索人体运动表达的情感交流。