Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements Reveal
Hidden Thoughts
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First published 2016
Routledge
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Challenging all of our old assumptions about the subject,
Rethinking Body Language builds on the most recent cutting-edge research to
offer a new theoretical perspective on this subject that will transform the way
we look at other people. In contrast to the traditional view that body language
is primarily concerned with the expression of emotions and the negotiation of
social relationships, author Geoff Beattie argues instead that gestures reflect
aspects of our thinking but in a different way to verbal language. Critically,
the spontaneous hand movements that people make when they talk often
communicate a good deal more than they intend. This ground-breaking book takes
body language analysis to a whole new level. Engagingly written by one of the
leading experts in the field, it shows how we can detect deception in
gesture–speech mismatches and how these unconscious movements can give us real
insight into people's underlying implicit attitudes.