Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2607: Jonathan Martin Reads Statement - Richie Incognito Miami Dolphins Controversy - Body Language (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Jonathan Martin made his first public statement yesterday since leaving the Miami Dolphins on 30 October 2013. The defensive lineman has made allegations including harassment against his former National Football League teammate Richie Incognito. Although this statement was prepared by his attorneys, Martin's nonverbal facial signals leak the true emotional tone which he is feeling in real-time.

His words are saying one thing, while his body language says something completely different.

Whenever the verbal and the nonverbal messages are in disagreement, always believe the nonverbal - for therein signals the primary emotional drivers (and the truth).

This picture is from 0:25 in the above video.

This image is taken from 0:28 in the video.

This photo is from the 0:33 mark.

In all three of these images, Martin's mouth expression is highly characteristic of the emotion of regret.

It is also important to note that during all three of these examples, the very instants his mouth were showing regret, his eyes were not making contact with his audience. In this last one he is looking in the distance, and in the first two he exhibited bilateral eyelid closure - thus conveying emotional processing. Mr. Martin's logical brain knows the situation, yet his emotional brain has yet to fully catch up.

What other body language signals are conveyed in this short video?

See also:

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2592: Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin Miami Dolphins Bullying Controversy - Part I; What QB Ryan Tannehill's Body Language Says

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2594: Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin Harassment, Part II - Miami Dolphins Coach Joe Philbin's Body Language

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2606: Brett Farve Displays Body Language of Fear about any Son Playing Football

Nonverbal Communication Analysis # 1878:  Desmonte Leonard, Auburn Alabama Shooting Suspect

Nonverbal Communication Analysis # 2277:  Diane O'Meara, Lennay Kekua,  Ronaiah Tuiasosopo & Manti Te'o -  O'Meara's Body Language - Part I

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2539: Calvin Johnson, the Index Finger and Alpha Behavior - A Body Language Tell of Mobile Phones

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2527: The Death of Jonathan Ferrell and a Tale of Two Attorneys

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Negotiation Nonverbal Communication Secret # 1488: Chief Justice John Roberts' Bitter-Regret Smile

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts, examples here an extremely common body language tell - and a very valuable one in the negotiation process (particularly for a Judge, he has a horrible poker face). Whatever verbal message that is conveyed when/just before/after a person displays such a "Bitter Smile" (Ekman) - it is an absolute that their true emotions are being held back - very often in flavor, and always in amplitude. 

Whenever the verbal and nonverbal messages are in disparity, the nonverbal is representative of what is truly being felt and thought. This particular bitter-regret "smile" guarantees some disparity. 

Believe it or not, we all make this bitter smile much more often than we think. The vast majority of the times, people think they are making a slight, polite smile (a "social smile") - when in actuality our mouths are concave down! (and our eyes are very far from "smiling eyes" - see Secret # 353: Brad Pitt's Smiling Eyes - Sincere and Insincere Smiles). This is yet another profound example of just how much our "emotional-proprioception" is desensitized during moments of negative emotions. In other words, virtually everyone is extremely unaware of just how much anger, sadness, fear, anxiety, vulnerability, etc. are displayed on their faces and bodies. This is very true aspect of human behavior, regardless of whether it's in retrospection or in  real-time.
 

Chief Justice Roberts is rumored to have a genius level I.Q. But remember, I.Q. is an abbreviation for "Intelligence Quotient" - intellectual intelligence, not emotional intelligence or emotional awareness. Ironic to some, those with a lot of formal education, on-average, have considerably less emotional awareness than those with only a high school education. We tend to ride more on our J.D., M.D., Ph.D, MBA, etc. and less on developing and maintaining our interpersonal skills. This is a pit-fall for which many (even most) attorneys, physicians, politicians and C-level executives suffer - they are largely in polite denial. Indeed, the average physician is superior at diagnosis, surgery and running a small business when they're 37, 47 or 57 - but their interpersonal skills very often were better when they were 27. The emperor is naked. 

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