Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3471: Ronda Rousey regarding her Loss to Holly Holm on Ellen DeGeneres Show - Body Language (VIDEO, PHOTOS)





During her highly emotional interview with Ellen DeGeneres on Tuesday, Ronda Rousey admitted to suicidal thoughts immediately after losing her UFC fight to Holly Holm. As you might expect, there is a tremendous number of excellent body language teaching moments in this video - one emotion of which is highlighted below.






















A Microexpression of Regret. Note Rousey's right mouth corner as it pulls laterally at 2:45. As with all microexpression, this is very brief and must be viewed in the context of the video to more fully appreciate its evanescent and subtle qualities.


Many nonverbal novices will mistake Rousey's mouth expression here (during 5:52) as one of a suppressed smile...












yet it's a signal of regret - both longer in duration and greater in amplitude vs. the microexpression isolated above.


A few seconds later, during 6:03, Rousey again displays a classic regret mouth configuration as she looks down to her right with near-complete prolonged eyelid closure








(consistent with strong grief/empathy/sad/shame/regret emotions).

This angle of this photo affords us a different perspective of Ms. Holm's mouth than the above images.

See also:

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3470: Taylor Swift's Speech at 2016 Grammys

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3377: Holly Holm's post-fight interview after defeating Ronda Rousey


Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2586: Harrison Ford in "Ender's Game" - Microexpression and Macroexpression of Regret - Harrison's Brand and the Stanislavski Method

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3440: Sarah Palin Endorses Donald Trump - What Trump Really Thinks About Palin 

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2086: Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Love and Sincerity

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3392: Donald Trump to Republican Jewish Coalition

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3292: Empathy, Yawning and Dogs

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2691: Barbara Bush, "I Love Bill Clinton"


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