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.
My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.
We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.
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