How you move your body gives an insight into your personality: Study

According to a new study, an individual’s mannerisms -- the way one walks, talks or sits -- are a dead giveaway about his/her personality. The results of the study also showed that people who display similar behavioural characteristics tend to move their bodies in the same way. Those who have similar movements will tend to display more organised collective behaviour. In addition, the people who move in a certain way will also react in similar ways when they are performing joint tasks. Further, the people with comparable movement would also find it easier to coordinate with each other during interpersonal interactions. “Our study shows that movement gives an indication of a person’s behavioural characteristics,” said Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova, professor at University of Exeter, in Britain