I see him using anger, in his raised definitive voice and small slight jerky head movements to defend himself and energize his delivery. Considering context testifying before Congress having known to have lied it seems interesting that he mad and indignant, to the congressional body that he lied to about his federal crimes. The synchronicity of his statements with his facial expressions and head movements indicate that he is honestly angry and indignant. There are clear indications that’s what Call, "Feel, Show, Say" He is feeling indignant and angry and those emotions arise from the limbic system he shows it nonverbal cues again that comes from the Linux system and then he, and then he says it with his words, That come from the neocortex.
Whether someone is telling the truth or not is much much more difficult to discern because he is a practiced rehearsed known liar If someone has justified for decades doing on ethical things and line on a regular basis tells dissipate.
If you don’t feel guilty if you feel no remorse if you feel justified in your actions then you’re not going to show anxiety and nervousness when you lie.
I can’t say when he says negative things about Trump such as the comments and his opening statements that was his strength and his voice and definitiveness in his head movements and small spontaneous forward movements that indicated he believed what he was saying. He was honest and authentic and his delivery of those specific statements about Trump.
Again he’s using the anger to energize himself this is a weary man if you look at his facial muscles you’ll see especially around the forehead around in the eyes their lowered appearance.
Something that is of interest to me that is more characteristic of Cohen is the slight lack of symmetry between the right and left side of his mouth. This lack of symmetry comes from talking out of the side of your mouth scientifically that means that you feel one thing you know someone thing to be true but you say something that’s not true. Again this is a characteristic of COHEN and not something that’s happened just in the testimony.
Another aspect of his testimony that I found interesting is that when he was apologizing in his opening testimony and it is closing testimony he did not bring down his head he did not close his eyes and shame he did not have a downward body motion another aspect of his testimony that I found interesting is that when he was apologizing in his opening testimony and it is closing testimony he did not bring down his head he did not close his eyes and shame he did not have a downward demeanor. Which all which would show shame, he pushed and energized his delivery, oddly seemed proud of his admission of guilt.
You didn’t ask about this but I watch testimony or he's asked about trumps collusion and knowledge of Russia helping Trump win the presidential campaign. Under that one line of questioning COHEN immediately changed his body language and vocal delivery he paused, in fact, he paused a lot he hemmed and hawed, he looked around his head cane town protectively and instead of being confident and angry he took on the appearance of someone who was not very smart. All of which appeared nonverbally to be an act, lacked spontaneity and authenticity nonverbally. As both a body language expert, media coach and someone who has prepared people who have testified before Congress. It was clear to me He was actually very smart well prepared very careful about his wording. For example, He was correcting those who questioned him very particular about certain words like “collusion.”
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