Read about what your lip print says about you. I have a full lower lip and I found it funny that the author says a full lower lip says you should be a writer or speaker!
http://glo.msn.com/relationships/what-your-lip-print-says-about-you-5353.gallery?bingQuery=1>1=49015#stackState=0__%2Frelationships%2Fwhat-your-lip-print-says-about-you-5353.gallery%3FphotoId%3D14970%26bingQuery%3D1%26q%3DFull%2BLower%2BLip
Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expertbody language insights go to her website at http://pattiwood.net/. Also check out the body language quiz on her YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.
Deception Detection of Text, or Language or Word Choice in Texting.
Deception Detection of Text, Language and Word Choice in Texting.
The article below discusses some of the methods currently used and describes a new product for text analysis. Communication Experts call in content analysis or rhetorical analysis. Psychologists, law enforcement and the criminal justice system call it statement analysis or forensic statement analysis.
Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at http://PattiWood.net. Also check out the body language quiz on her YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.
The article below discusses some of the methods currently used and describes a new product for text analysis. Communication Experts call in content analysis or rhetorical analysis. Psychologists, law enforcement and the criminal justice system call it statement analysis or forensic statement analysis.
Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at http://PattiWood.net. Also check out the body language quiz on her YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.
www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-the-automatic-recognition-of-deceptive-language-dt20070111ptan20070010993.php
Method and system for the automatic recognition of deceptive language
Smiling, Makes You Feel Good!
Smiling Makes You
Feel Good!
Research on the positive effects of
smiling.
ewscientist.com/article/mg15020279.300-act-now-think-later--fear-not-politicians-that-elusive-feelgood-factor-can-be-created-in-an-instant-just-appeal-to-our-primal-instincts-advises-david-concar.html Act now, think later - Fear not, politicians. That elusive feel-good factor can be created in an instant. Just appeal to our primal instincts, advises David Concar
27 April 1996
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Department stores opt for nice smells and muzak; impresarios use warm-up acts. But psychologist Sheila Murphy has an infinitely more devious way of getting people in the right frame of mind. First she sits them in front of a screen in her lab at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Then she flashes up images of smiling faces.
Nothing obviously devious about that: smiles make people cheerful. The rub is that Murphy's smiles last for just a few thousandths of a second. That's way too fast for the human brain to know what it's looking at. And yet, according to in-depth studies carried out over many years by Murphy, veteran emotions researcher Robert Zajonc and their colleagues, these split-second flashes of teeth and warmly wrinkled eyes induce a measurably more positive frame of mind.
It sounds crazy. How can people respond to facial expressions too short-lived to permeate...?
ewscientist.com/article/mg15020279.300-act-now-think-later--fear-not-politicians-that-elusive-feelgood-factor-can-be-created-in-an-instant-just-appeal-to-our-primal-instincts-advises-david-concar.html Act now, think later - Fear not, politicians. That elusive feel-good factor can be created in an instant. Just appeal to our primal instincts, advises David Concar
27 April 1996
Magazine issue 2027. Subscribe and save
Department stores opt for nice smells and muzak; impresarios use warm-up acts. But psychologist Sheila Murphy has an infinitely more devious way of getting people in the right frame of mind. First she sits them in front of a screen in her lab at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Then she flashes up images of smiling faces.
Nothing obviously devious about that: smiles make people cheerful. The rub is that Murphy's smiles last for just a few thousandths of a second. That's way too fast for the human brain to know what it's looking at. And yet, according to in-depth studies carried out over many years by Murphy, veteran emotions researcher Robert Zajonc and their colleagues, these split-second flashes of teeth and warmly wrinkled eyes induce a measurably more positive frame of mind.
It sounds crazy. How can people respond to facial expressions too short-lived to permeate...?
Revealing Body Language
Patti Wood, body language expert, tells US Weekly that Letterman appears to be hiding something. Check the link below to find out why Patti arrived at this conclusion!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37126521/Letterman-US-Weekly
Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at http://pattiwood.net/. Also check out the body language quiz on her YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.
Body Language Tips For Job Interviews, Interviewing Tips
Body Language Tips for Job Interviews, Interviewing Tips
Interviewers go with their gut.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427312.500-cometowork-eyes-secrets-of-interview-success.html
Come-to-work eyes: Secrets of interview success
- 21 October 2009 by Michael Bond
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ONE thing you can be sure of when you walk into an interview is that you're not there to be tested on what you know. The people sitting in front of you are already aware that when it comes to technical skills and qualifications, you tick all the boxes. What they're dying to find out is what you're like as a person - whether you'll fit in, whether they can trust you, how you're likely to behave at the office party. From now on, it's all about chemistry - or, more accurately, psychology.
So how do you give yourself the best chance of success? The most common piece of advice you'll get is to "be yourself". Forget that, it'll only help if you're the chief executive's cousin. A better strategy is to exploit the psychological shortcuts that interviewers unconsciously use when deciding whether or not they like someone - cues such as eye contact and body language. We all use them when meeting someone for the first time, and research shows that interviewers rely on these more than rational analysis when assessing a candidate.
We're not advocating wholesale deception, just a bit of fine-tuning to help pitch things in your favour...
First impressions count
When we meet someone for the first time, we make our minds up about various aspects of their personality almost instantaneously. We can't help ourselves. Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov at Princeton University found that showing people an unfamiliar face for just one-tenth of a second is long enough for them to form judgements about the person's attractiveness, likeability, trustworthiness, competence and aggressiveness. Having more time to deliberate doesn't change our opinions, it only increases our confidence in them (Psychological Science, vol 17, p 592).
No doubt there are good evolutionary reasons for this, though it's not clear how accurate such snap judgements are
And it's best to keep it up, at least for half a minute. Tricia Prickett, while at the University of Toledo in Ohio, found that untrained observers who watched a video of the first 20 to 30 seconds of a job interview were astonishingly accurate at predicting whether the applicant would be offered the job. That doesn't mean the observers were especially good at picking good candidates. It means the interviewers, despite being fully trained, still go with their initial gut instinct.
Can we change an interviewer's first impression? That's difficult, but not impossible, says Frank Bernieri, who studies personality perception at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Though it's easier to dislodge a positive impression than a negative one, he says. "Socially undesirable information, such as picking your nose or farting, tends to be weighted more in our assessments. What this means is that good impressions are always at risk of being trashed at any moment."
DO be prepared to turn on the charm right from the start
DON'T pick your nose. Bad first impressions are even harder to dislodge than bogies
Look fabulous
Attractive people make more money and go further in their careers because we are all biased towards beauty - unfortunate but true. This was shown by V. Bhaskar at University College London in a study of a Dutch TV show in which the highest-scoring player at the end of a round chooses which competitor to eliminate. He found that the least attractive players were twice as likely to be eliminated, despite scoring no worse than the others.
Attractive people make more money and go further because we're biased towards beauty - unfortunate but true
One reason for this is what's known as the halo effect: people assume that someone who scores highly in one character trait also scores highly in others. Social psychologist Richard Nisbett demonstrated that the thought process behind the halo effect is almost entirely subconscious (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol 35, p 250). Use this to your advantage: most interviewers are mugs just like everyone else when it comes to the subtleties of social psychology.
DO make an effort: dress sharp and make sure you look your best
DON'T be tempted to test out the halo effect using your comic genius
Start with the handshake
Unless you plan on abseiling through the interviewer's window, shaking hands with them is probably the first opportunity you'll get to make an impression. Seize it. But not too hard. Give it a nice firm press, then some up and down movement.
That may sound disquietingly ritualistic, but several studies have found that people unconsciously equate a firm handshake with an extroverted, sociable personality - and that's more likely than a shy disposition to please an interviewer. What's more, a handshake can set the tone for the entire interview because it's one of the first nonverbal clues an applicant gives about their personality, says Greg Stewart at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who last year tested the theory in mock interviews with 98 students. He found that those who had a firm handshake were more likely to be hired (Journal of Applied Psychology, vol 93, p 1139).
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