Body Language Arrives Northern Ireland
It’s true, we’re not the most physically expressive bunch of people on the planet. But there was an interesting case study in body language last year thanks to two of our dourest political operatives. And to make it all the more juicy, it was caught on camera for all to see. I’m talking about the ‘revealing’ body language of Martin McGuinness and Peter...
Read MoreThe Body Language of Emoticons
Is Paul Ekman wrong? Paul who? Paul Ekman – the psychology professor who discovered that the facial expressions of emotion are universal across human cultures and thus biological in origin. This was big news at a time when most anthropologists believed that all expressions of emotion were culturally determined. Ekman found that at least six expressions were universal – those...
Read MoreBody Language With Benji
If you’re an 80s child like me, you’ll remember Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince. It was a kids sci-fi series about the earth-bound adventures of a dork, a droid, and a disgustingly cute dog called Benji. Benji went on to star in other series and films of his own. In all of them, he repeatedly showed that cutie-pie ‘I’m a little, stray puppy-wuppy, pretty please be...
Read MoreRadical Listening Skills
I was momentarily speechless this week, as I listened to 14-17 year olds tell me how I could tell if they were listening to me. We then applied this to listening to others, specifically those who were telling you something very personal, such as their feelings and what they were thinking about themselves. Here are the phrases they called out, as we thought what might be important to think...
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