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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
The Body Language Effects on Communication
Gestures override language when people are communicating, but their physicality is saying something different. We do learn not to express certain emotions because we know that people can read them and people read them very quickly in many cases without awareness. So I become more and more aware of it as I study gesture. And someone wants a meeting to end, they stand up. That's a signal. If you're around a table, who you look at next gets the floor, and women aren't looked at. There are aspects like that that are social, of how we interact socially which again have effects in the body language has effects on the conversation.
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