CODING BODY MOVEMENTS AND POSTURES – A COMPLETE AND FREE DICTIONARY: The ‘Body Action and Posture coding system (BAP)’.

Deal, Mortillaro and Scherer (2012), leading researchers at the Affective Sciences – Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research at the University of Geneva, have proposed an interesting tool for encoding body language, postures and body language in general: the Body Action and Posture coding system (BAP).

The tool, which can be consulted and downloaded completely free of charge atwww.affective-sciences.org/gemep/BAP_coding, aims to further raise the scientific standard in the field of objective measurement of non-verbal behaviour, in order to assess which muscular actions of the body occur in conjunction with emotions, or during the complex process of interpersonal communication.

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• Dael, N., Mortillaro, M., & Scherer, K. R. (2012). The Body Action and Posture coding system (BAP): Development and reliability. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 36, 97-121.

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