Body Language For Dummies
Chapter One
Defining Body Language
In This Chapter
* Finding out how body language speaks for you
* Gesturing for a purpose
* Understanding what you're communicating
The science of body language is a fairly recent study, dating primarily from
around 60 years ago, although body language itself is, of course, as old
as humans. Psychologists, zoologists, and social anthropologists have conducted
detailed research into the components of body language - part of
the larger family known as non-verbal behaviour.
If you're quiet for a moment and take the time to pay attention to body language
movements and expressions that silently communicate messages of
their own, you can cue in on gestures that convey a feeling and transmit a
thought. If you pay close attention, you can identify gestures that you automatically
associate with another person, which tell you who she is. In addition,
you may notice other types of gestures that reveal a person's inner
state at that moment.
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