The question whether body movements and body postures are indicative of speciยฎc emotions is a matter of debate. While some studies have found evidence for speciยฎc body movements accompanying speciยฎc emotions, others indicate that movement behavior (aside from facial expression) may be only indicative of the quantity (intensity) of emotion, but not of its quality. The study reported here is an attempt to demonstrate that body movements and postures to some degree are speciยฎc for certain emotions. A sample of 224 video takes, in which actors and actresses portrayed the emotions of elated joy, happiness, sadness, despair, fear, terror, cold anger, hot anger, disgust, contempt, shame, guilt, pride, and boredom via a scenario approach, was analyzed using coding schemata for the analysis of body movements and postures. Results indicate that some emotion-speciยฎc movement and posture characteristics seem to exist, but that for body movements dierences between emotions can be partly explained by the dimension of activation. While encoder (actor) dierences are rather pronounced with respect to speciยฎc movement and posture habits, these dierences are largely independent from the emotion-speciยฎc dierences found. The results are discussed with respect to emotion-speciยฎc discrete expression models in contrast to dimensional models of emotion encoding.