Rethinking body language : how hand movements reveal hidden thoughts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beattie, Geoffrey (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a new perspective on an old problem
  • Two separate languages?
  • Where the action is a remarkable biological miracle?
  • Images in the hands, images in the mind
  • Different vehicles of meaning
  • Gestures and the frustrations of everyday life
  • Speech is only half the story
  • Who or what the hands portray
  • How our eyes are drawn to the gestures of others : the gesture limits itself intelligently to what matters?
  • Manipulating the salience of individual elements to see how gestures respond
  • How metaphoric gestures affect us
  • Putting iconic gestures into TV advertisements
  • How iconic gestures can leak the truth
  • Unconscious gesture can leak unconscious attitude
  • Concluding remarks
  • References.