Your body language may shape who you are

 

 

How we are fascinated with body language and in particular other people’s body language

- She said that we're really fascinated with body language, and we're particularly interested in other people's body language. Like an awkward interaction, or a smile, or a contemptuous glance, or maybe a very awkward wink, or maybe even something like a handshake. So, a handshake,  or the lack of a handshake, can have us talking for weeks and weeks. 

How are we also influenced by our own non-verbal’s (thought, feeling, and body physiology)

- When we think about nonverbal behaviour, or body language, but we call it nonverbals as social scientists. it's language, so we think about communication. When we think about communication, we think about interactions. So, what is your body language communicating to me? What's mine communicating to you? So social scientists have spent a lot of time looking at the effects of our body language, or other people's body language, on judgments. And we make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language. And those judgments can predict really meaningful life outcomes like who we hire or promote, who we ask out on a date. So, when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us, and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves. We are also influenced by our nonverbals, our thoughts, and our feelings, and our physiology