Introduction to Non verbal communication

Rule #1 Read gestures in cluster

  As simple gesture taken out of a wider context may be extremely misleading. And this is the mistake most people make. Hence, one gesture is like a word in a spoken language. Body language has its words, sentences and punctuation (Pease, 2004). Only when you interpret a gesture with a much broader context. Moreover everybody has their own set of gestures either learned or acquired in their childhood. Instead of looking only at one’s hands, also pay attention to their eyes, feet or arms.