Body Language Analysis No. 4173: California Mud Slides - Rescue and Surprise - Nonverbal And Emotional Intelligence (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Up until this moment, this fourteen-year-old girl had unaware of the extensive damage to her neighborhood from the California mudslides. Upon being rescued - and pulled from her collapsed home in Montecito, California - she was not prepared for the emotional impact of the seeing the flotsam and jetsam.

In this moment of realization, she displays a classic facial expression of surprise. Note the shape of her widely opened mouth - it's a vertically oriented ovoid. Additionally, none of her teeth are visible. Both of these features are components of sincere surprise. During feigned surprise - teeth are exposed and the opening of the mouth takes on a horizontal oval shape.

Simultaneously, her eyelids are also opened very widely - along with both elevated eyebrows and forehead.

True surprise is a very short-lived emotion, lasting only one to two seconds - as it's rapidly replaced with another emotion (commonly fear, anger, joy, sadness, embarrassment, etc.).

May we stand with the survivors as they recover as we grieve for those who have died in the California mudslides.






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See also:

Body Language Analysis No. 4172: Donald Trump During National Anthem at Alabama vs. Georgia College Football Game

Body Language Analysis No. 4170: Stephen Miller's and Jake Tapper's Confrontational Exchange

Body Language Analysis No. 4168: President Trump's Hands - Conspicuous by their absence

Body Language Analysis No. 4166: Logan Paul's Apology

Body Language Analysis No. 4158: Michelle Williams regarding Kevin Spacey - "All the Money in the World"

Body Language Analysis No. 4132: Drake's Tattoo of Denzel Washington

Body Language Analysis No. 4107: Paul Manafort, Robert Mueller, Russian Oligarchs, and Donald Trump

Body Language Analysis No. 4061: Pennywise,"IT", and Bill Skarsgård's Demonic Smile - Why is IT so Scary?

Body Language Analysis No. 4017: Elisabeth Moss, Anthony Rizzo, and a Signal of Sincerity


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Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3543: Donald Trump, "It Felt Like I Was Crossing The Border Actually" - Body Language (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

At the GOP Convention in Burlingame, California today, Donald Trump entered and exited the building through a back door and via a circuitous path due to strategic placement of hundreds of demonstrators. Once began speaking, he told some lies - providing for us some excellent nonverbal examples. What follows is a partial analysis.

At 0:02 in the above video, Trump continues, ".... That was not the easiest entrance I've ever made. My wife called, she said, 'There are helicopters following you' - and we did, and then we went under a fence and through a fence and - [pause] oh boy, it felt like I was crossing the border actually, yeah - it's true ..."

During 0:12 Trump says, "... we went under a fence ..."

Note his hand gesture (in body language parlance, this is an example of an illustrator) is moving in an up-and-over motion, which contradicts his verbal statement of going under a fence. Whenever the nonverbal language contradicts the verbal language - it's the nonverbal that's always true.

0:16 - 0:18
Trump says, "... it felt like I was crossing the border actually..."

Whenever Donald Trump performs a false microphone adjustment, there's an extremely high likelihood he's telling a lie. Of course this is not his only deception tell - but it is one he commits often - and here we know it's a lie. In this example, he was using hyperbole, yet this deception tell still is displayed. This false microphone adjustment is a "MAP Surrogate" (Manipulator, Adaptor, Pacifier) as a substitute for self-touching.

See also:

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3542: Lara Croft, Keeley Hawes, Sexual Energy and Body Language

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3495: Donald Trump swarmed by security on stage in Ohio

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3508: Batman V Superman - Sad Affleck? (NOT!)

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3523: Jaws - "You're Going to Need a Bigger Boat"

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3510: Lindsey Graham - The Senator Picks His Poison: Ted Cruz vs. Donald Trump

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3486: Donald Trump and Chris Christie on Super Tuesday - Display the Same Telling Nonverbal Signal to Same Statement re: Trump's Wall

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3264: Hillary Clinton, Likability and Perceived Trustworthiness

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2745: Vladimir Putin Deception regarding Crimea


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Nonverbal Communication Analysis # 2317: "The Rescuing Hug" - Body Language of Human Touch & Kangaroo Care

Never underestimate the power of touch. The video above describes twin sisters born on 17 October 1995 in Worcester, Massachusetts twelve weeks premature. They were both weighed about two pounds (about 900 grams). When Brielle Jackson went into respiratory distress, Gayle Kasparian, an NICU nurse, put her healthier sister Kyrie in the incubator with her. This allowed skin-to-skin contact and Brielle immediately stabilized. This and similar practices have been since termed "Kangaroo Care" and the practice with premature infants has been called "co-bedding". It improves oxygen levels in blood, reduces apnea, engenders better weight gain, leads to decreased agitation, reduced hospital length-of-stay, less chance of readmission and better temperature regulation. Hugging/cuddling also strengthens the immune system, reduces anxiety, helps depression, lowers blood pressure and improves sleep quality. 

The human touch is a powerful thing. Do not squander it. 

Both Brielle and Kyrie are healthy are now high school juniors.

See also:

Nonverbal Communication Analysis # 2203:  A Body Language Metric of Intimacy and Affection -  How Do YOU cuddle?

Nonverbal Communication Analysis # 2: Body Language of Blake Lively and Penn Badgley  Strongly Suggests an Impending Break-up in Near Future

Romance, Dating & Marriage - Body Language Secret # 1500:  Six Degrees? Leaning In, Head Touching and the Manubrium - Kyra and Kevin are 10th Cousins, Once Removed

Nonverbal Communication Secret # 1423:  Head First Affection & Head Surrogate Hugs

Nonverbal Communication Analysis # 1911:  Dina & Clint Eastwood - Preening as a Signal of Affection-Attraction

Dating & Romance Body Language Secret # 1139:  Is Their Hug Sincere?  Karen & Rick Santorum

Nonverbal Communication Analysis # 1898:  Heat, Hugs & Head Surrogates

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Nonverbal Communication Analysis # 1815: California Governor Jerry Brown's recent YouTube address - Taxes, Cuts and State Budget

California Governor Jerry Brown recently posted a video on YouTube explaining to the people of the State his feelings-opinions regarding increased taxes and spending cuts in order to bring the State Budget under control. While Governor Brown's sincerity quotient is relatively high, if his goal is to influence to voters in California, there are certainly several major modifications he should have made to this speech-announcement & choreography-filming. 

At no time do we ever see the Governor's right hand. The less we can see of a person, the less we trust them, ergo they have diminished capacity to develop rapport and influence us. This body language maxim is particularly true of the hands. By keeping his right hand-arm hidden during the entire video, Brown is destroying rapport. It would have been much better if no table or desk were used at all. The symbolism of sitting behind a desk doesn't work when one is trying to build a shared viewpoint and trust - rather it's destructive. If one feels the need to sit at a table-desk, it should be glassed-topped with thin legs so that much more of the person is visible. 

Brown hardly even used any hand gestures during this speech-announcement. An illustrator is a term to describe the natural hand-arm movements used in speech to visually underline, punctuate and emphasize words and phrases. Most of the time they should not elevate above the shoulders, below the waist and should only extend a couple inches wider than the width of ones' shoulders. Beware of the tendency of haphazard movements some people make when they're nervous or inexperienced. Unnatural looking gestures or lack of (or suddenly diminished) hand-arm gestures (illustrators) are often consistent with deception. When used in harmony with the spoken word, they can serve to increase the influence of the speaker and the recall of the listener. Displayed properly, illustrators build rapport - but many people use them too much, too little or in a counterproductive manner. Brown never used his right hand and his left was only used briefly in a rapport-destroying palms-down gesture towards the end of the video. Note also when he used this over-authoritarian body language - the tension displayed in his left hand was mirrored on his face. 

The Governor should have his jacket unbuttoned as well.  A closed jacket in this context betrays a closed mind. A beige tie is never wields power, authority or leadership. Fashion aside, his tie should have been more brightly colored and vibrant - but not distracting. Beige equals blaaah. Jerry Brown needs to have his shirts tailored as well. The redundant fabric seen between his tie and jacket is a visual-metaphor for weakness and disorganization.

The former Attorney General would have been better advised to have been standing with nothing in front of him while filming this video. The second best scenario would have to been him seated on a chair (not a high stool, as seen so often in debates) with no table present, leaning slightly forward and the bottoms of both feet on the floor. The multicolored background is also visually distracting.

I cannot be 100% sure (only 99 +% sure), but it looks as if Jerry Brown has had botox treatments to his forehead musculature. His forehead is particularly under-expressive. The forehead and eyebrows are certainly needed to display the full gamut of human emotions. Paralyzing this region interferes with our ability to communicate our thoughts and feelings and leaves others with watered-down and inanimate experience.

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