Archive for the 'Body Language' Category

A Physical Language

January 25th, 2008

A few weeks ago I wrote about how to read faces, as well as people’s underlying emotions. In a related vein, this week I’d like to talk about body language. Not so much a quantitative data-related topic this week but I think it’ll be a good follow-up to those posts. (There’s plenty of qualitative research backing up these findings, in any event.) To help in this endeavor, I’ll be referring liberally to a much-acclaimed book called “The Definitive Book of Body Language” by Barbara and Allan Pease.

At first it would seem like body language is not