Sunday, September 4, 2016

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3682: Donald Trump Surrogate Pastor Mark Burns Caught in Deception - Body Language & Emotional Intelligence (VIDEO, PHOTOS)





Donald Trump surrogate, Pastor Mark Burns was confronted in this interview by CNN reporter Victor Blackwell - and at multiple times he exhibited a particular nonverbal tell which is very commonly seen in the context of deception.

Pastor Burns also displayed a multitude of verbal and paralanguage tells strongly suggestive of lying including stuttering, miss-speaking, changing the subject, not answering the question and even walking out of the interview leaving the reporter in Burn's own church.

Both repeatedly and during strategic moments Pastor Burns displayed "Loose Tongue Juts". One of these was vectored straight forward while the remainder swept from his right to left. These variations of the tongue jut are indicative of the emotional tones of: "I've just been caught", "I've been bad"  - or "I'm about to do something bad/get caught".

Summary: No single nonverbal signal is always definitive for a lie. However when clustered with multiple paralanguage, verbal tells (statement analysis) and other nonverbal signs (Did you spot the other ones?) - this clustered example of repeated tongue jutting is highly consistent with deception.


























See also:

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3681: Hillary Clinton's Low Transparency

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3679: Donald Trump, Enrique Peña Nieto and The Wall

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3677: Chris Brown's Pre-Arrest Instagram Rant


Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3673: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin separate after Sexting Scandal

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3669: Jordan Spieth, Bill Murray and the Asymmetrical Smile

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3648: Hillary Clinton, “I may have short-circuited”

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3622: Theresa May's First Speech as Prime Minister

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3597: David Cameron, The Brexit and Suppressing Emotions


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