Decoding Look, Gestures, Voice

Talking about people’s internal psychological content and external morphological features, we should remember that human face is not something frozen, but is a whole range of different movements, resulting in mimicry.
Look


For example, fully raised head tells about self-confidence, expresses self-consciousness, complete openness and attention to the outside world. Tilting the head back demonstrates a strong [...]

Talking about people’s internal psychological content and external morphological features, we should remember that human face is not something frozen, but is a whole range of different movements, resulting in mimicry.

Look

For example, fully raised head tells about self-confidence, expresses self-consciousness, complete openness and attention to the outside world. Tilting the head back demonstrates a strong desire to work and gain aims. In contrast, bent head indicates low activity, complete openness and even submission. Head, hanging upside down, is a sign of weakness and unavailability to stresses.

“Language of look” is very diverse. Thus, fully open eyes characterize high sensitivity, intellect, and overall liveliness. Wide-open (”bulging”) eyes indicate attachment to the visual environment. » Curtained” eyes are often the sign of inertia, indifference, arrogance, boredom, or fatigue. Narrowed or squinting eyes mean either concentrated attention, sometimes even slyness.

Direct look shows interest, trust, openness, readiness to interact directly. Looking from the side indicates skepticism and disbelief. Looking down (with tilted head) finds a sense of superiority, arrogance, contempt, domination. Deviated look indicates insecure, shy or timid personality.

German anthropologist Carsten Nimitz, studying smile in its dynamics, found that the impression of sincere or feigned smiles arises depending on the speed with which the corners of the mouth are raised. The researcher affirms that a smile accompanied with the expansion of the eyes for too long time without their brief closing tells about threat. In the opposite, briefly closing eyes is a calming element of mimicry.

Gestures

Crossed arms tell about protective reaction, isolation, and self-defense. Hands behind the back indicate lack of willingness to act, as well as shyness and embarrassment. Open palm up is a gesture of explanation, persuasion, and readiness to contact. Hands hidden in pockets tell about concealment of difficulties.

Movement of hands covering the face or part of it indicates the desire to hide something. Open hand stroking something pleasant to the touch (e.g., the other arm) tells about gentle temper, good humor.

Finger inserted into the mouth defines the naivety, the state of absent-mindedness, and confusion. Finger, touching the eyes or ears, is a sign of a certain awkwardness, timidity and desire to escape.

Every gesture of the individual is a certain word in the language. Reading the gestures, we provide feedback, which plays a major role in the interaction process.

Voice

Voice is a characteristic feature, which allows getting more general impression of the Here are some characteristics of the human voice:

• A lively, brisk manner of speaking shows impulsivity, self-confidence


• Calm, slow manner suggests calmness, prudence, soundness


• Visible fluctuations in the speed of speech reveal a lack of balance, uncertainty, excitable


• A powerful voice indicates true power, inherent motives, sometimes even arrogance


• Quiet voice indicates restraint, modesty, tact, or lack of vitality, weakness


• Abrupt changes in the volume demonstrate the emotion and excitement