What Can Body Language Actually Tell Us?
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2019
- Body language experts are wrong. Here's how.
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Body language analysis has long been a theme in popular books, traditional media and now, an increasing number of UA-cam channels. While this is all pretty entertaining, it's not scientific: It’s really, really hard to study body language.
To express yourself without words, you mostly use your head and your hands. But many actions of your hands and body are so idiosyncratic that they carry little specific meaning. So, popularly, people prescribing an intention to a movement that, perhaps, had no intention at all.
And therein lies the problem: researchers need to encode and decode your movements to study them. If you do A, it could mean B or C. A lot of research is open to interpretation, but this idea of "intention" can be very subjective - especially when our body language can shift due to our age, culture and gender. We can't study something empirically if we're making guesses at what a movement means, or if it means anything at all.
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REFERENCES 📚
Mehrabian, A., & Ferris, S. R. (1967). Inference of attitudes from nonverbal communication in two channels. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 31(3), 248-252.
Mehrabian, A., & Wiener, M. (1967). Decoding of inconsistent communications. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 6(1), 109-114.
Friedman, R. and Elliot, A. J. (2008), The effect of arm crossing on persistence and performance. Eur. J. Soc. Psychol., 38: 449-461. doi:10.1002/ejsp.444
Why body movements are so hard to study:
Harrigan, J., Rosenthal, R., Scherer, K. R., & Scherer, K. (Eds.). (2008). New handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research. Oxford University Press.
Gaze and lying:
Wiseman, R., Watt, C., Ten Brinke, L., Porter, S., Couper, S. L., & Rankin, C. (2012). The eyes don’t have it: lie detection and neuro-linguistic programming. PloS one, 7(7), e40259.
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Hey, am I coming across as open? agreeable? likeable?? Your body language doesn't have as much to do with this as you might think. Many actions of your hands and body are so idiosyncratic that they carry little specific meaning, so instead, focus on the conversation at hand. Many body language myths have been perpetuated by people prescribing an intention to a movement that, perhaps, had no intention at all.
Can you do a video on how to remember the people you meet, especially when you meet lots of people? I always have trouble remembering names and other details like where they are from, what they do, etc.
Your voice comes up as calming and likeable. I always feel better and relax after watching your videos .. Thanks, Vanessa
Thanks Mohamed. Should I do ASMR?!
Yes - this is a great idea!
@@braincraft Definitely!
I hope this gets kinda viral, people need to know this common mistakes.
Thx for the video.
Ha thanks - please share it!
@@braincraft Sure thing. Specially with my classmates (psychology major). Even teachers in my college believe the 93% and do not accept otherwise, I tried.
I've heard that one about which direction you look when lying vs telling the truth so many times and I've never believed it. I just couldn't find anything to back up my skepticism.
@@JeremyHicks Not True! Some people look to the left, others look to the right. It's all about clusters of discomfort or comfort, they you zero in on what caused the discomfort!
Thank u I can comfortably cross my arms again.
IKR, sometimes I involuntarily cross my arms when I start thinking about a complex issue (I mean more complex than what to eat for dinner) and I kept thinking what's defensive about that?!
I'm just being comfortable.
I can finally stand with my legs crossed without people thinking I'm being submissive. I'm not trying to protect my genitals, it's just comfortable.
Thanks for debunking a highly judgemental practice
Highly shallow practice.
I wonder though if knowing these myths for years could have people subconsciously act accordingly anyway, or maybe try to do the opposite to mask their thoughts?
In other words: relax, be yourself and you'll do just fine!
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haha just be yourself dude!
I have ASD and so this video was really helpful and some coverage of how us Aspies might construe the wrong messages or interpret the wrong message could be helpful.
Thanks for still be uploading,Vanessa.Your channel is awesome o/
Yes! Thanks for covering this one. I get annoyed at the fake psychology out there.
IMO, being charismatic is more about being true to yourself than faking it until you make it. If you're not engaged, no matter how hard you try to fake it, you- won't make it, unless the other person is equally unengaged and it's all just a formality thing
Most of the time I cross my arms and legs because they are painful. My nervous system have been damaged by some unappropriate medecine. Nothing to do with openness or closeness.
Great job breaking down the complexities of this topic. Body language is often ambiguous, like many other social "facts".
Love this series, can't wait to see more :)
*I just love how you bring this topics, the way that the video flows it's perfect to understand
Please continue to make this type of content, it is helping me a lot!*
Thanks Marcos!
Great editing! Animation is top notch.
I love the new not paper figures. It took about half the episode before I caught on, but I think because I didn't see your eyes, arms, or eyebrows, I had no idea.
Oh frick. Every one of this series of videos I've seen so far is talking about how essential it is in work and social life to display behaviour that is almost impossible for a person with my kind of brain. Oh great. Guess I need to work even harder on pretending to be a normal person so I won't be left unemployed and socially outcast just because I can't stop apologising or do small talk or make eye contact.
Awesome! This needs to be known to everyone!
Great video! I always thought that something was off about 93% of communication being non-verbal
Nice animations!!!
For news reports they probably look at a script and sometimes it's other people or stuff they're looking at and getting distracted by.
Going by what they say is a better indicator of whom they are.
Thanks for keeping it real
Nice video!
Look at the baseline, are there movements that deviate from the regular behaviour? Then think what this is likely associated with.
"Let's break this complex problem down to 'Yes' or 'No'".
I'd love to hear your thoughts about "presence" given the mixed research on the topic!
Thank you for debunking this nonsense! I feel like this BS unintentionally teaches people to be more judgmental of neurodivergent people who have not told anyone of their disability or how it affects their behavior. Same with hearing impaired/deaf people because we have more expressive facial expressions.
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Body language was when I pivoted to a music analysis channel 😉
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I thought the crossed arms thing was kind of a mix: that is too say that it *can* be (or is often? but isn't necessarily) due to a "closed off" attitude. And that if you want to be careful not to accidentally convey that message, then you shouldn't cross your arms.
Why "sponsored in part"? What's the difference between being sponsored by X and being sponsored in part by X? Or is that just because your patrons are in effect "sponsors"?
Yep, you got it! The sponsorships go into a bucket of all of the things that fund my episodes: Patreon plays a big role, there's also adsense (from UA-cam), merch when I get around to making more.
Ah, okay :)
really eye opening
I really feel like they don't get enough of a variety of people when they do these "studies".
The new animation is awesome but I miss the the stop motion animation.
loved the myth busts
I appreciate all the females (and women of colour) in your representation of scientists/researchers - representation is important! Also, great vid! I didn't know most of these were myths :|
Thanks, nothing is as pleasant as knowing the truth of myths hidden in the name of science
I find it hard to read body language and put my foot in it and sometimes hurt people's feelings cos I have bpd and anxiety and depression and? Autistic spe trum never even formally diagnosed but just over baseline on 50 question test one of the questions was how you rea t to non verbal cues bpd is an executive functioning personality disorder which affects executive functioning areas of brain areas that deal with logic non verbal cues how you interrupt what people say how you relate to people asically it affects your amegdala hypacampus hypervalmus and frontel lobes to a certain extent especially impulse control its not a nice condition ocassionly I laugh at things that aren't funny that can horrify people or say what I think without considering if it hurts others I'm 47 and my psych said when I was in hospital 8 month I'd prob had it since my 20s but didn't realise it no therapy has helped cos I ha e a sessionand by next day can't remember techniques
Everyone who teaches Non Verbal Communication say you look for clusters. It's about comfort and discomfort. Most of what you said is true, but everyone who teaches it says it at the beginning of their course. Not 93%, but up to 80% of how we judge people is Non Verbal. I suggest reading anything by Joe Navarro, Jack Shafer, Vanessa Van Edwards, and many more. Again everything you said it true, but are the first things taught in Non Verbal Courses!!
Because this is a divulgation channel, not a dissertation one
What a feeling. Do do do do-do. Bein's believin'. Do do do do-do. I can have it all. Now I'm dancing for my life... Barely moving a muscle actually.
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Is this really the level of Stanford?
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Now while I know that these myths are wrong, let's just hope any future interviewers/dates realise that they are using the wrong data in their decision making towards me. You're judging me wrong!!!
I thought looking to the left was the sign of lying?
could it also mean... someone has a problem with eye contact? There is distracting movement on the left? The idea that all human beings are wired to look a certain way when they're lying it's actually kind of silly when you think about it.
If it was true it also wouldn't work for dyslexics, or other non-neurotypicals. As most have the connections between the hemispheres of the brain in different places.
It just doesn't work.
So how is it explained that "successful" people use these tricks with.. uh... success?
Could it be just they were likely already confident people to begin with and these just reassured them that they had social situations in the bag?
Vanessa my brain wants to marry yours.
I knew it. It's all crap!
Can you do less animation.
I have some other videos (without animation) coming shortly!
Hmm.. could it be that you prefer to watch Venessa instead? 😁
I like how the truth of today is a lie tomorrow. There is no truth, there are no lies. Not long ago it was the truth that earth is flat. Yesterday it was a lie. Today it is true again. Who knows about tomorrow? Decide your own truth, your own reality, based on where you wanna be and what you wanna do and believe, and what is needed to achieve them.
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Lying Trump lie’s no matter what?
~See all those myths? Now watch a class of someone who makes a living telling lies like the ones I just debunked~
Oh frick. Every one of this series of videos I've seen so far is talking about how essential it is in work and social life to display behaviour that is almost impossible for a person with my kind of brain. Oh great. Guess I need to work even harder on pretending to be a normal person so I won't be left unemployed and socially outcast just because I can't stop apologising or do small talk or make eye contact.