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Robin Akert and Dane Archer (1991, 1998) have found that participants who view and decode interactions in the Social Interpretations Task (SIT) perform significantly better than chance when answering such questions as "Which woman is the mother of the baby?" According to these researchers, people do relatively well because:

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multi channel nonverbal information is diffused throughout each scene.

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Two famous researcher namely Robin Akert and Dane Archer have done research work on people in the Social Interpretations Task (SIT) who are given to decode few interactions that are presented in a non verbal ways.

Robin Akert and Dane Archer believes that people perform better in the in the Social Interpretations Task than when answering questions such as "Which woman is the mother of the baby?"

They believed that one of the reason why people perform relatively well is the task is because they are provided with various information through different modes such as visual, tactile or visual. All these techniques help people to perform better.

Thus the answer is "multi channel nonverbal information is diffused throughout each scene."

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