The following is an adapted excerpt from "The Dictionary of Body Language" and "What Every Body is Saying" by Joe Navarro. The human hand has no equal. It can hold a scalpel and perform delicate ...

Verbal communication is usually straightforward. You open your mouth and say what you want to say. Communication doesn’t only happen verbally. As you speak or listen, you also express feelings and ...

Are some people better at nonverbal communication than others? I have spent the last 45 years studying this very topic: individual differences in people’s abilities to communicate through nonverbal ...

First impressions are made in nanoseconds, based largely on body language and vocal tone. What is less widely known is that body language also influences how we feel and the feelings we generate in ...

Université de Montréal provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Université de Montréal provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Body language experts have been ...

Former FBI agent and body language expert Joe Navarro breaks down the intentional (and unintentional) non-verbals displayed by politicians. Why do some politicians point with their entire hand? What ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carol Kinsey Goman is a contributor on body language and presence. Dec 30, 2024, 07:59pm EST When we’re meeting face-to-face, a ...

Geoff Beattie has received funding from the ESRC for his work on gesture. Indeed, you can’t trust everything you read in body language guides. For example, in a book published in 1970, author Ray ...

Ramin Skibba is an astrophysicist turned science writer and freelance journalist who is based in San Diego. This story originally featured on Undark. Last week, tens of millions of people tuned into ...