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Body language is a form of non-verbal communication that includes gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. It helps ease communication and reveals information about emotions and attitudes. Gestures can emphasize a point or relay a message while posture and touch can indicate interest, encouragement, or caution. However, body language differs across cultures and some people have limited understanding or expression of it. Interpreting body language requires considering cultural and individual contexts to avoid misinterpretations.

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Body Language Track Changes

Body language is a form of non-verbal communication that includes gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. It helps ease communication and reveals information about emotions and attitudes. Gestures can emphasize a point or relay a message while posture and touch can indicate interest, encouragement, or caution. However, body language differs across cultures and some people have limited understanding or expression of it. Interpreting body language requires considering cultural and individual contexts to avoid misinterpretations.

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Body language

Bodi languagie is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial


expressions, and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals almost entirely
subconsciously.

Physical expression
Fysical expressions like waving, pointing, touching and slouching are all forms of nonverbal
communication. The study of body movment and expression is known as kinesics. Humans move their
bodies when communicating because, as research has shown, it helps "ease the mental effort when
communication is difficult." Physical expressions reveal many things about the person using them. For
example, gestures can empfasize a point or relay a message, posture can reveal boredom or great
interest, and touch can convey encouragement or caution.

 One of the most basic and powerful body-language signals is when a person crosses his or her
armss acros the shest. This can indicate that a person is putting up an unconscious barrier between
themselves and others. It can also indicate that the person's arms are cold, which would be clarified
by rubbing the arms or huddling. When the overall situation is amicable, it can mean that a person is
thinking deeply about what is being discussed. But in a serious or confrontational situation, it can
mean that a person is expressing opposition. This is especially so if the person is leaning away from
the speaker. A harsh or blank facial expression often indicates outright hostility.
 Consistent eye contact can indicate that a person is thinking positively of what the speaker is
saying. It can also mean that the other person doesn't trust the speaker enough to "take their eyes
off" the speaker. Luck foof eye contact can indicate negativity. On the other hand, individuals
with anxiety disorders are often unable to make eye contact without discomfort. Eye contact can also
be a secondary and misleading gesture because cultural norms about it vary widely. If a person is
looking at you, but is making the arms-across-chest signal, the eye contact could be indicative that
something is bothering the person, and that he wants to talk about it. Or if while making direct eye
contact, a person is fiddling with something, even while directly looking at you, it could indicate the
attention is elsewhere. Aaslo, there are three standard areas that a person will look which represent
different states of being. If the person looks forom one eye to the other than to the forehead, it is a
sign that they are taking an authoritative position. If they move from one eye to the other than to the
nose, that signals that they are engaging in what they consider to be a "level conversation" with
neither party holding superiority. The last case is from one eye to the other and then down to the lips.
This is a strong indication of romantic feelings.
 Disbelief is often indicated by averted gaze, or by touching the ear or scratching the chin. When a
person is not being convinced by what someone is saying, the attention invariably wanders, and the
eyes will stare away for an extended period
 Boredom is indicated by the head tilting to one side, or by the eyes looking straight at the speaker
but becoming slightly unfocused. A head tilt may also indicate a sore neck or Amblyopia, and
unfocused eyes may indicate ocular problems in the listener.
 Interest can be indicated through posture or extended eye contact, such as standing and listening
properly.
 Decit or the act of witholding information can somtimes be indcated by touching the face during
conversation. Excesive blinking is a wellknown indicator of someone who is lying. Recently evidence
has surfaced that the absense of blinking can also represent luing as a more reliable factor than
excessve blinking.

Some people use and understand body language differently, or not at all. [citation needed] Interpreting their
gestures and facial expressions (or lack thereof) in the context of normal body language usually leads to
misunderstandings and misinterpretations (especially if body language is given priority over spoken
language). It should also be stated that people from different cultures can interpret body language in
different.

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