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... INTRODUCTION
Nonverbal communication is a complex process that includes people, words, tone of voice and body movements. Some scientists assume and claim that the study of the body language is merely another tool with which scientific knowledge will be used to dominate, to rule and explore other people at the same time, by which their thoughts and secrets will be read. Anyway, that is nothing else but an opportunity to gain a better communication with the others, to get a better understanding about other people and your self, as well. Having it in mind that how something functions or exists, it enables us to live easier with it, while misunderstanding, unconsciousness and ignorance produce fear, doubt and at the same time it doesn’t challenge to criticize the others anymore. ... Perception, intuition, premonition2
From technical point of view, whenever we name somebody “perceptive” that’s nothing else but his ability to read others non-verbal signs and to compare them with the verbal signals. With other words, whenever we say, “I feel that you are lying to me”, actually we think that the body language and the spoken words by that person, do not correspond. ... The information are collected by observation of the blind and deaf people, which couldn’t have learned the nonverbal signals through visual channels; by observing the behavior gestures at different world cultures and through the study of the behavior of our closest anthropological relatives, the monkeys.
The German scientists Eibl & Eibesfeldt had find out that laughing at children born deaf and blind, appears independently from learning or imitating, and this means that these gestures are inborn. Most of the communication gestures are almost equal everywhere around the world. ...
The genesis development of some of the gestures is as a result of our primitive and animally past. ... In the past the laughing was originally a threatening gesture, but nowadays its appearance is in conjunction with other harmless gestures and expresses pleasure. ... Gestures in groups
One of the most dangerous mistakes that a beginner in the body language can commit is to perform particular gestures isolated from other gestures or the conditions under which they appear. For example: scratching the head it can have many meanings: dandruff, louses, sweating, insecure, overlooking or lying, depending on other gestures that appear at the same time. Therefore, we should always consider the gestures as a collective unity so we can properly read something out of it.
As any other language also the body language is consisted of words, sentences and inter-punctuation. ... Therefore, a “perceptive” individual is the one that is able to read the nonverbal sentences and to precisely compare these with the verbal sentences of the personality that he’s observing. ... This essay will concretely communicate about the gestures with hands, eye signals, the behavior of our look etc. ... GESTURES WITH HANDS AND PALMS7
2. ... Gestures with palms
2. ... As in all other negative gestures, suitable actions should be undertaken so the person can set free his fingers and expose palms, and fore part of the body, otherwise the unfriendly attitude will remain. ... Palms forming a tower or sharp point
As we already mentioned, gestures appear as a whole, collected altogether as words in a sentence and therefore they should be interpreted in a context that is observed from. “Sharpness” as Birdwhistel called it, can be an exclusion from this rule, because it is mostly used isolated from other gestures. ...
Although, these gestures produce positive signals, they are still used in both situations; negative and positive, therefore it might occur to be misinterpreted. For example: the salesman while he presents the product to a potential buyer, he might notice a lot of positive gestures during the interview. ... If this gesture is followed with a serial of other positive gestures, while the salesman does his presentation, then the first signal is given for concluding the sale, to make the purchase order, and to look forward for its realization. But on the other hand, if this gesture is
11 The state of feeling , or the act of expressing strong and unreasonable opinions or beliefs followed with an ongoing of negative gestures like: crossed hands, crossed legs, staring aside or something like that, when the buyer will form his palms in shape of a tower just before the end of the presentation, it indicates that he’s sure that he isn’t going to buy anything or he wants to get rid of the salesman. ... On the local level, a policeman uses this gesture while patrolling; the principal of the local school while walking on the schoolyard; the military chief personnel and all of the others in positions with influence use this gesture. ... This posture14 enables the personality to expose in front of the others, his woundable stomach, his heart and his neckline, unconsciously showing by that an act of courageousness or a fearless act. ... Gestures with thumbs are secondary gestures. ... A seducer uses these gestures in a presence of a potential female partner. These gestures are common also for people that wear expensive clothes, which signifies prestige and advanced status. ... Dominant and aggressive women use this gesture as well, because their body movements enabled them to accustom17 a lot of men’s gestures and postures (picture 14). ... GESTURES HANDS-FACE
3. ... The ability to recognize the nonverbal gestures that indicate frauds, it can be one of the most important observation skills that anybody can achieve. Which are the signals of frauds that can betray the performers of those gestures? ... This chapter about “hands-face” actions descriptively narrates the formed basis of the human gestures of fraud (picture 17). ... The children use these obvious gestures that show fraud, in a quite frankly and genuine21 way. ... As the personality grow to be more developed, the gestures “hands-face” get more refined and less obvious, but still they appear whenever that personality lies, conceals22 or testifies a fraud. ...
When somebody uses the “hand-face” gestures, not always means that he or she is lying. However, this indicates that the personality that is communicating with you maybe is cheating on you, but a further observation of all his gestures, it can verify your suspicion. It is very important that you don’t interpret “hand-face” gestures isolated. ... The nurses that were lying showed more frequent usage of “hand-face” gestures than the nurses that were telling the truth to their patients. In the following section we’ll talk about variants of the “hand-face” gestures as well as why, how and when do they take place. ... Protecting the mouth - gesture
The gesture “mouth protector” is one of the rare gestures of an adult, which is equally obvious as the gestures done by children. ...
An explanation about the origin of the “touching the nose” gesture is that as the negative thoughts go across your mind, the subconscious orders the hand to cover the mouth, but at the very last minute, for not being obvious, the hand gets removed from the face, and then follows a quick touch on the nose. ... They do it for two reasons: first, because they were educated to circumvent28 contradictable gestures, and second, to avoid spoiling of the make-up. ... It is assemble of fake smiling and teeth tightening gestures combined with “scratching the eye” gesture and turned look. ... It is very noticeable, if the verbal language is contradictable with this gesture, for example, when a person says: “I can imagine how do you feel”, and at the same time he scratches his neck. ... Pulling the collar30 - gesture
Desmond Morris studied the gestures produced by those that lie. ... While most of the “hands-mouth” gestures communicate lying or fraud, the “fingers in the mouth” gesture it’s an outer manifestation of the inner necessity for soothing31. ... Gestures that include cheeks and chin
Some say that a good orator is the one that knows “instinctively” when his audience is interested on what he’s talking about, and when they have already heard enough. ... Fortunately, most of the gestures like-as: “hand-cheek” and “hand-chin” will let know the salesman whether he’s doing a progress throughout32 the sale. ...
Hitting the table with fingers, and the continuous patter35 of feet on the floor are gestures usually misinterpreted by professional orators, as signs of boringness, though they actually indicate impatience. ... Usually, if negative thoughts continue to take place, then the point finger scratches or jerks40 the eye. ... His best strategy would have been, if he observes the next gestures of the buyer, and that would let him know, what kind of decision the buyer has made. ... Combining the group gestures “hands-face”
Sometimes the gestures that show ”boringness”, “evaluation” or ”bringing a decision”, they appear combined and each combination shows elements of man’s attitude. ... Scratching the head & slapping the head - gestures
Exaggerated version of the “pulling the collar” gesture is scratching the back of the neck with the palm. ... Hess, in his book “The Tell-Tale Eye” says that eyes can give the most transparent and the most exact communication signal, because eyes are on the focus of the body, and pupils function independently from it (the body). ... Aristotle Onuses was famous by wearing dark glasses during his business meetings, for his eyes wouldn’t reveal his thoughts. ... In other words, for establishing a good communication with the others, your look should impact with the look of the other at least 60-70% of the time. ...
As a lot of other body’s gestures, also this one, according to the period of time that you keep the look of the other at you, is culturally determined. ...
Besides the duration of staring, equally important is also the topographic region of the face and the body, and the point where you’re looking at, as well. ... Intimate staring
In this case the stare moves from the person’s eyes towards his chin and other parts of the body. ... General review
The body area of the other person towards whom you’re addressing your fixed look, can powerfully influence on the result of whatever “face-to-face” meeting. ... CONCLUSION
After every thing we said about the gestures, their appearance and meaning, we can come up with a question that more or less concerns us all: Is it possible, consciously to twist61 our own body language?
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