“People form impressions about the personality of politicians simply from the way they move, according to a new study. This isn’t your typical body-language investigation into double-armed hand-shakes, bitten lips and fidgety fingers. Rather Markus Koppensteiner and Karl Grammer devised a new system for mathematically describing the movement patterns of forty real German politicians giving speeches in parliament. Each 16-second, silent video was converted into a stick figure by using an interactive computer programme to place dots on key landmarks such as the elbows, shoulders and forehead. The movement of these landmarks generated dynamic coordinate data which was then crunched according to mathematical characteristics including the ‘turbulence coefficient’ (i.e. periods of high activity followed by periods of low activity), and the activity levels of body parts such as the head and arms.
Next, 150 participants, mostly students, watched these same video clips and rated the personalities of the moving stick figures. The key finding was that there were correlations between the personality characteristics attributed by the students to the stick figures and the motion patterns of those stick figures as identified by the researchers’ motion analysis programme. For example, politicians who displayed a high turbulent coefficient (low activity interrupted by periods of high activity) tended to be rated as more agreeable. Those who displayed more head movements were considered less conscientious, and those who showed low turbulence (i.e. consistently high activity levels) with many horizontal and vertical arm movements tended to be considered more extravert.”
Read more at BPS Research Digest
Politicians have been also found to posses a lot of characteristics identifying psychopaths. That’s why Obama is able to joke about drones while they kill hundreds of innocent people on such very suspicious events such as weddings, that’s why Tony Blair feels no remorse profiting from lies about Iraq, just as Bush was able to joke about those mythical WMDs while countless people were dying as a result of that lie.
Positions of power naturally attract personalities striving to control, to dominate and manipulate others … that’s not to say all of them are of course but those are in great minority because people have let their guard down and allowed themselves to be deceived because they can not conceive there would be people who feel no shame, no remorse and would blatantly lie without a blink of an eye. Unfortunately such people do exist … and more people need to be aware of that!
Read more at http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2684-Law-Enforcement-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Serial-killers-and-politicians-share-traits