Body language tells all

I remember in the 1970s body language was in vogue. It is interesting. Initially people focused on general body positions, such as body open arms are a sign of openness. Exposing your wrists to someone is a sign of trust.  Opening your legs towards someone is obvious. 

Micro expressions and body language

Now the focus is more on micro movement and gestures and physiologist use computers to analysis these micro expressions.  For example, if someone is lying do not look in their eyes ,as many liars are practiced and many shy people just look away naturally.  There is a micro expression on a person’s forehead that betrays most lies.  In fact I think Bill Clinton had this micro expression, when he said “I did not sleep with Monica Lewinsky, but maybe he did not, I do not know.

Origins of body language

The relation of body language to animal communication has often been discussed. Body language is a product of both genetic and environmental influences. Blind children will smile and laugh even though they have never seen a smile. The ethologist Iraneus Eibl-Eibesfeldt claimed that a number of basic elements of body language were universal across cultures and must therefore be fixed action patterns under instinctive control. Some forms of human body language show continuities with communicative gestures of other apes, though often with changes in meaning. More refined gestures, which vary between cultures (for example the gestures to indicate “yes” and “no”), must be learned or modified through learning, usually by unconscious observation of the environment.

This article looks at the origins of body language. Body language

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