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An Introduction of reading Body Language

A research was done at the University of Pennsylvania to determine to what extent does a person's body language affects the impression that people from of him/her. The shocking results was that people build their impression about you based on:

• 55 percent gestures, postures and movements.
• 38 percent on the tone of your voice (tempo and frequency).
• Only 7 percent on what you say.

That is a total of 93 percent for body language(which comprises Bodily gestures and tone of voice) and only 7 percent for spoken words. This means that 93 percent of what you want to say is not uttered in words but shown in ur body language and gestures.

Isn't 93 percent for Body Language such a big number?

If you think about it for awhile, you will find that this actually makes sense. In any society, there is the liar, the imposter and the one who can't express his feelings. Based on this research, researchers started to study human feelings and how they tie it in to a person's gestures. What they discovered was that, whenever there was a change in emotions, there was a corresponding change in gestures and the tone of voice.

How to interpret Body Language

Researchers successeded in identifying a lexicon of feelings and their corresponding gestures. Anyone who has access to this information can read people's feelings through their body language. Learning to interpret body language is not a hard task. You just need to know the familiar gestures in body language and their associated emotional states then link them together.

Uses of Body Language

Body language is now widely used in politics, investigations of all kind (where body language of suspects are analyzed), sales, negotiations and in any situation involving communication between people. Body language is not only used in understanding the emotional states of other people but It can also help you to in letting others precieve you the way you want. For Example, you can make someone think that you are feeling confident while you are actually feeling terrified.

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