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Mar 3 2009

David J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 7 of 7 | Body Language Displays For Effective Communication

by admin on March 3, 2009

Today we are going to talk about how to increase congruence in your body language display and the message you want to send. I will cover 3 of the most often used emotions on a daily basis so that you can see how to work with these on your own. Now there are 8 basic emotions per Robert Plutchik’s Psychoevolutionary Theory and they are: Fear Anger Sorrow/Sadness Joy Disgust Acceptance Anticipation Surprise Robert Plutchik developed what is known as the Psychoevolutionary Theory of emotion and this has turned out to be one of the most influential classification systems for categorizing [...]

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Mar 3 2009

David J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 6 of 7 | Body Language For Event Prediction And Sensory Acuity

by admin on March 3, 2009

In following yesterdays post on manipulation of information delivery, let’s get right into the subsequent 2 categories of event prediction and sensory acuity… 1. Prediction of Events: When I say “prediction of events”, what I mean is the ability to assign a probability to whether someone is going to follow through on their assertions one way or another. Again, reading body language can only give you a view into one or both areas of congruence and general mental states. So although you won’t KNOW exactly what they are thinking, congruence or incongruence in their informational message and their nonverbally communicated [...]

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