Body Language Analysis No. 4279: Rudy Giuliani regarding President Trump's alleged Sexual Relationship with Stormy Daniels - Nonverbal and Emotional Intelligence (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

On Sunday 6 May 2018, Rudy Giuliani (one of President Trump's personal attorneys) appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. The former NYC mayor displayed a plethora of nonverbal tells. What follows a partial nonverbal analysis focusing on one key passage of the interview.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (continuing at 0:56): So the President does deny any sexual relationship with Stormy Daniels?

RUDY GIULIANI: He has, ah, I have not - ah, I'm notta, as I said, I'm not involved in that, but the reality is he denies - she denied it, then at, when, when it was opportunistic right before the - election, she came forward - and then of course, the whole thing happened with - Michael Cohen, an-, and, a it's history now because it wasn't a campaign anything ah, that - 

The image immediately above was captured during the 1:00 mark as Rudy Giuliani said, "... has, ah ..."

From 1:15 - 1:16, as Mr. Giuliani "... history now because it wasn't a campaign ...", although somewhat less in magnitude (vs. the first example), he repeated the same eyes wide opened display.

The significance of widely opened upper eyelids - when occurring:

• Out-of-context
• Frequently

... can't be over-emphasized.

This Out-of-Context, Eyes Wide Open display simply screams that the person is trying too hard to convince you. Why? Because they don't believe it. Because they're lying. It's a profound and classic signal of insincerity. Indeed, if you were a directing an actor who was playing a deceptive scene/role - this is one nonverbal signal you'd want them to adopt.

SUMMARY: Rudy Giuliani's nonverbal behavior in this interview indicates that he believes Donald Trump did have a sexual relationship with Stormy Daniels.

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Body Language Analysis No. 4275: Rudy Giuliani's Interview on Fox News - Nonverbal and Emotional Intelligence (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

As a Nonverbal/Body Language Expert, the most common inquiry one hears (by far) is, "How can I tell when someone is lying?"

While the ability to suss-out truth from lies is profoundly important, what's equally - and perhaps more crucial is the ability to detect sincerity vs. insincerity. For a person who has overall insincere personality traits - may very well NOT be lying to you right now - they will. Bet on it. And, they will lie more often. Moreover, because such individuals are particularly good at getting close to you - causing you to drop your guard and gaining your trust - their lies will do more damage.

Thus, detecting insincerity is, very much, the art of detecting liars when their not lying (yet).

There exists a multitude of nonverbal insincerity tells. One excellent guideline is - any time you sense a person is trying too hard to convince you (whether it's via their words, their vocal qualities [paralanguage] - or their body language) - with high probability, they're trying to deceive you.

One common nonverbal signal of insincerity is seen when a person opens their upper eyelids widely - out of context - and does so frequently.

This begs the question - what are some normal emotional contexts for widely opened eyelids?

• Fear
• Severe Anger (Rage)
• Surprise

It's important to point out that with all three of these emotions, the other portions of the face have dramatically different configurations, but for the purposes of this discussion, we're limiting our analysis only to the eyelids.

In the first 3 minutes 18 seconds of this video, Rudy Giuliani opens his eyelids very widely 10 times. On average, that's one such display every 19.8 seconds. But he wasn't enraged, he wasn't afraid, and he wasn't surprised.

So why did he open his eyelids so widely and so frequently?

Rudy Giuliani was trying too hard - much too hard to convince his audience. This behavior is a nonverbal analog to a person using too many exclamation marks. He is acting, although he's not very skilled at it. Don't fall for this ruse.

SUMMARY: Rudy Giuliani's pattern of frequent and dramatic displays of widely opened eyelids in this video is a highly reliable nonverbal signal of insincerity.

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