Nonverbal Communication
« Previous EntriesIn Pictures: Secrets of Nonverbal Communication
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Learn about nonverbal communication from the pictures shown here.
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Body Language Essentials for Business
Thursday, February 11th, 2010An essential skill for all business people is the ability to spot when someone is lying, and more! In this video, Barry from Management Consultancy International, outlines how to ensure that you get the most from your face-to-face interactions by reading the vast amount of information in body language. Some of these revealing clues are [...]
How to Detect a Lie
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Watch more Howcast videos on AOL Video
Are you getting the whole truth and nothing but? The answer may be lying right in front of you.
Psychologists Find That Head Movement Is More Important Than Gender In Nonverbal Communication
Monday, January 25th, 2010It is well known that people use head motion during conversation to convey a range of meanings and emotions, and that women use more active head motion when conversing with each other than men use when they talk with each other.
When women and men converse together, the men use a little more head [...]
The Psychology of Body Language
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010For millions of years, our early ancestors ambled on this planet, effectively navigating a very dangerous world. They did so by communicating effectively with each other their needs, observations, and desires. Impressively, they achieved this through the use of nonverbal communications; more specifically body language.
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Rich Man, Poor Man: Body Language Can Indicate Socioeconomic Status, Study Shows
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Socioeconomic status (SES) is determined by a number of factors such as wealth, occupation and schools attended. SES influences the food we eat, hobbies we participate in and can even have an impact on our health.
People with an upper SES background can often be accused of flaunting their status, such as by the types of [...]
Body Language Myths
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009The first myth claims that because we know so much about body language now that it is easy to spot a liar. The second myth, and it is exactly that, a myth, is that eye aversion is indicative of deception.
Beginning in the 1970’s so called body language experts began to prattle that body language was [...]
Words, Gestures Are Translated by Same Brain Regions
Monday, December 21st, 2009Your ability to make sense of Groucho’s words and Harpo’s pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health.
. . . researchers have shown that the [...]
Let's Get Nonverbal, Electronically
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add nonverbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. It is fascinating work, and the real-world applications are even more compelling.
Digital communication hasn’t the richness of face-to-face conversation because it cannot communicate the non-verbal cues and contextual information that are so [...]
Why People Are Better at Lying Online Than Telling a Lie Face-To-Face
Monday, December 14th, 2009In the digital world, it’s easier to tell a lie and get away with it. That’s good news for liars, but not so good for anyone being deceived.
Michael Woodworth, a forensic psychologist at UBC Okanagan studying deception in computer-mediated environments, says offering up a fib in person might make you provide certain signals that you’re [...]
