People do not read insights into ourselves from watching a video of our own body language. Outside observers watching the same video make revealing insights into our personality.
In other words, "self-perceivers do not appear to pay as much attention to and make as much use of available behavioural information as neutral observers," the
researchers said.
Hofmann, W., Gschwendner, T., & Schmitt, M. (2009). The road to the unconscious self not taken: Discrepancies between self- and observer-inferences about implicit dispositions from nonverbal behavioural cues. European Journal of Personality, 23 (4), 343-366.
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