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• Why flirting might be good for your relationship -- BBCNews (06 February 2024)
  
  
• 8 Common Body Language Mistakes That Destroy Relationships -- YourTango (14 July 2021)
  
  
• The Body Language Cues of Creepiness -- Psychology Today (05 July 2021)
  
  
• A celebrity body language expert said these are the 7 things you must know rem kenisics -- LADDERS (05 June 2021)
  
  
• How Men Use Body Language to Control Women -- Psychology Today (10 April 2021)
  
  
• This new PowerPoint tool can assess your body language for all those Zoom and Teams calls -- ZDNet (18 March 2021)
  
  
• Body language expert reveals how to read people's facial expressions behind a face mask -- DailyMail (23 November 2020)
  
  
• Meghan Markles ego is raging in her latest speech: body language expert -- Geo News (06 October 2020)
  
  
• 5 Steps to Mastering Body Language -- Psychology Today (26 September 2020)
  
  
• The movements that betray who you are -- BBCFuture (13 September 2020)
  
  
• I'm a Body Language Expert. Here's What I Saw During the Conventions -- POLITICO (20 August 2020)
  
  
• 5 Science-Based, Body Language Habits That Will Help You Master Video Conferencing -- Forbes (10 August 2020)
  
  
• How personal contact will change post-Covid-19 -- BBCFuture (29 April 2020)
  
  
• 8 great tricks for reading people’s body language -- LADDERS (23 March 2019)
  
  
• Hidden signs you give off in an interview can damage your career -- BBCcapital (27 September 2016)
  
  
• Dogs understand both words and intonation of human speech -- Guardian (30 August 2016)
  
  
• Their Masters' Voices: Dogs Understand Tone And Meaning Of Words -- NPR (30 August 2016)
  
  
• Video: Your dog understands more than you think -- Science (30 August 2016)
  
  
• A Language Where Space Has No Directions -- ScienceDaily (11 July 2016)
  
  
• Do a bumblebee's hairs talk to the flowers? -- Christian Science Monitor (30 May 2016)
  
  
• Is Symptom Expression a Form of Communication? -- EurekAlert (25 May 2016)
  
  
• The 'Not Face' Is a Universal Part of Language, Study Suggests -- ScienceDaily (28 March 2016)
  
  
• How bees give a heads-up when danger is near -- Christian Science Monitor (27 March 2016)
  
  
• What Sound Is This Gesture? -- Inside Science (02 February 2016)
  
  
• What our persperation reveals about us -- BBCFuture (04 August 2015)
  
  
• Is 'face-ism' spoiling your life? -- BBCFuture (08 July 2015)
  
  
• Why Shaking Hands Is Still a Big Deal -- Telegraph (11 May 2015)
  
  
• Mandarin Speakers Read Emotions In Voices, English Speakers In Faces -- Science 2.0 (24 February 2015)
  
  
• Facial Expression More Important To Conveying Emotion In Music Than In Speech -- Science 2.0 (24 February 2015)
  
  
• Research Defines More Behaviors That Reveal Romantic Attraction -- EurekAlert (12 February 2015)
  
  
• Using Your Body Language to Improve Listening and Creativity -- Inside Science (22 December 2014)
  
  
• Gender and the Body Language of Power -- Pacific Standard (02 October 2013)
  
  
• Don't Read My Lips! Body Language Trumps the Face for Conveying Intense Emotions -- EurekAlert (15 January 2013)
  
  
• Body, Not Eyes, Is Window on the Soul -- Telegraph (29 November 2012)
  
  
• Deaf Sign Language Users Pick Up Faster on Body Language -- EurekAlert (12 January 2012)
  
  
• Learn Language Faster with Gestures -- NewScientist (03 January 2012)
  
  
• Monkey See, Monkey Do? The Role of Mirror Neurons in Human Behavior -- EurekAlert (01 August 2011)
  
  
• Mirroring Has Many Advantages -- But Beware -- Discovery News (01 August 2011)

Kinesics

• “body language”
  
  
• the study of communication that occurs through body movements, positions, and facial expressions
  
  
• motion and gestures

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Proxemics

• the study of communication that occurs through spatial behavior
  
  
• “body language”
  
  
• using personal space

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Other Information

• Body Language Reveals Wealth -- LiveScience (10 February 2009)
  
  
• Center for Non-Verbal Studies
  
  
• Erickson, Karla, "Tight Spaces and Salsa-stained Aprons: Bodies at Work in American Restaurants, in Beriss, David and David Sutton (Eds.). The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat. Oxford: Berg, 2007, pp. 17-23.
  
  
• Decoding Body Language -- NPR (6/28/08)
  
  
• Ekman, Paul. Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 2007.
  
  
• Henley, N. (1986). Body politics: Power, sex and nonverbal communication. Prentice-Hall.
  
  
• Hidden Relationship Factors: Beyond Talking and Touching -- Live Science (04 June 2010)
  
  
• Navarro, Joe. The Dictionary of Body Language: A Field Guide to Human Behavior, NY: William Morrow, 2018.
  
  
• Navarro, Joe. Louder than Words: Take Your Career from Average to Exceptional with the Hidden Power of Nonverbal Intelligence, NY: William Morrow, 2010.
  
  
• Navarro, Joe. What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People. NY: William Morrow, 2009.
  
  
• Pease, Allan Pease. Body Language: How to Read Others' Thoughts by their Gestures. Bhopal: Manjul, 2014.
  
  
• Pease, Barbara, and Allan Pease. The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions. NY: Bantam, 2006.
  
  
• Recognition of Facial Expressions Is Not Universal -- EurekAlert (26 January 2010)
  
  
• Rich man, poor man: study shows body language can indicate socioeconomic status-- EurekAlert (04 February 2009)
  
  
• What Facial Expressions Are Really Saying -- NPR (6/19/08)

 

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