The body language clinic: Mysterious misconceptions
Posted by Peter Clayton in Soft skills on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 10:17
Peter Clayton looks at some of the most common misconceptions in the light of new analysis, and what this recent research can now tell us about how we communicate.
About half the questions I get asked at conferences or by email concern elements of body language that people are confused about, such as folding arms being defensive and eye contact meaning concealment.
It is understandable, because many articles have been written in the past that indicate these are signals that can be read easily and mean something definitive. However, more research has been done on body language in the last five years than in the previous 50 years and it is now believed that some of the original thinking behind certain gestures was over-simplified.
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