Meaning and/or Motivation: Talking fast can be due to lying (fast talking salesman), a reaction to growing up in a house where it was hard to get a word in, a basic insecurity, poor self-esteem, efforts to gain attention, nervousness, impatience, anxiety, insecurity, excitement, fear, d...
Gaze duration in a business setting also has meaning. If eye contact between men and women is any less than 80-90% it means that both sexes are disinterested. On the other hand, if gaze is held too long amongst men, it is read as aggression, or if too short, as a lack of confiden...
Meaning and/or Motivation: Hidden thumbs can be found when people are timid and insecure. The polar opposite to the thumb display is the hidden thumb. This posture says “I’m unsure of myself” and denotes low confidence and low status. Cue Cluster: Watch for submissive cues such as shou...
Meaning and/or Motivation: Sometimes referred as a nervous twitch, a sudden short burst of movement or flinch can be due to a variety of reasons. Twitching can be due to sudden or sustained stress, but more often than not, it is due to a random firing of neurons, or underlying medial ...
Some people find the lack of context in Baraka occasionally frustrating, not knowing where a section was filmed, or the meaning of the ritual taking place. However, the DVD version includes a short behind-the-scenes featurette in which cinematographer Ron Fricke explains that the effect was inten...
Meaning and/or Motivation: A tense face is one that shows discomfort and discomfort is a cue that delineates a lack of honesty and that the body is concerned with negative thoughts. Bodies show additional discomfort through an increased heart rate, breath rate, sweating, a change in normal co...
Cue In Action: She was about to give her big presentation, her eyes seemed as though she was a deer in the headlights. The edges of her mouth curled upwards trying to mask her fear. Meaning and/or Motivation: The nervous smile indicates that a degree of fear or awkward feelings are pre...
Meaning and/or Motivation: Usually rocking signifies a negative thought and based on its intensity and persistence spells to what degree it is felt. High intensity rocking is found in the mentally ill such as those with schizophrenia, those with obsessive compulsive disorder, or hyperactivity disorde...
The break in whistling is an indication that there has been a change in focus. Cue Cluster: Watch for adjoining stress related cues or relaxed cues to verify the meaning. It is important to verify the baseline of an individual to decide what whistling really means as some use it to pacify...
Meaning and/or Motivation: Winking is a gesture that usually signals that something cheeky is going on between two people who are “in on the joke.” The wink is a “tie signal” meaning it is delivered from one person specifically toward another person who in on the secret, or joke. Th...