Genesis and psychological role of self-purification and grooming gestures in human pantomimic production
Journal: Vestnik Kostroma State University Series Pedagogy Psychology Sociokinetics
Year: 2023

The article proposes a classification of gestures when hiding information from the persons involved. Pantomimic production with fear of exposure has an unconscious origin. It is differentiated into resource gestures that restore the body's homeostasis and adaptive body movements, which refer to the self-preservation reactions of the limbic system to a dangerous stimulus. Gestures - manipulators, as actions that cleanse the body, were singled out by the American psychologist, psychiatrist P. Ekma