Showing Teeth Equals Aggressiveness

Participant Media's Jeff Skoll arrives to the Los Angeles premiere of Magnolia Pictures' 'Countdown to Zero' on July 28, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.◦

Showing Teeth Equals Aggressiveness

Obama Shows Us His Baseline Gesture for 'The Other Side' Today

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias (Right) (D-IL) at a Chicago Hotel, August 5, 2010. ◦

Obama Shows Us His Baseline Gesture for 'The Other Side' Today

Trader Shows Disgust After Wheat Prices Hit 2 Year High Today

A trader reacts in the Wheat pit at the CME Group August 5, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Wheat prices reached a two-year high after Russia said it would ban grain exports due to severe droughts and wildfires.◦

Trader Shows Disgust After Wheat Prices Hit 2 Year High Today

Keep the Thumbs Exposed

Phil Ettinger attends the Cinema Society & 2(x)ist screening of 'Twelve' at Landmark's Sunshine Cinema on July 28, 2010 in New York City.

It shows a lack of confidence to not show our thumbs and besides it looks weird.◦

Keep the Thumbs Exposed

Interesting Study: Body-Specific Representations of Action Verbs Neural Evidence From Right- and Left-Handers

"An analysis of politicians’ body language by Dutch researchers has revealed that the leaders use their dominant hand for gestures while making a positive statement and relied more frequently on the other when making a negative statement.

"The findings support the “body-specific hypothesis,” which links the content of our minds to the structure of our bodies. They also confirm past studies that showed individuals link their dominant side with positive things — like intelligence, goodness — while associate their nondominant side with more negative attributes.

"Study author Daniel Casasanto, of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, said the last two US presidential elections offered an unprecedented opportunity to test this theory with regard to speech and body language. "

Unfortunately we all know politicians lie, it would be more interesting to test the theory on average people. Does it hold true for average people? Could this be the start of a theory concerning deception based on dominant vs nondominant handed gestures?


Details
Body-Specific Representations of Action Verbs Neural Evidence From Right- and Left-Handers
Roel M. Willems
Peter Hagoort and Daniel Casasanto

Abstract
According to theories of embodied cognition, understanding a verb like throw involves unconsciously simulating the action of throwing, using areas of the brain that support motor planning. If understanding action words involves mentally simulating one’s own actions, then the neurocognitive representation of word meanings should differ for people with different kinds of bodies, who perform actions in systematically different ways. In a test of the body-specificity hypothesis, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare premotor activity correlated with action verb understanding in right- and left-handers. Right-handers preferentially activated the left premotor cortex during lexical decisions on manual-action verbs (compared with nonmanual-action verbs), whereas left-handers preferentially activated right premotor areas. This finding helps refine theories of embodied semantics, suggesting that implicit mental simulation during language processing is body specific: Right- and left-handers, who perform actions differently, use correspondingly different areas of the brain for representing action verb meanings.◦

Interesting Study: Body-Specific Representations of Action Verbs Neural Evidence From Right- and Left-Handers

Clearly None of These People Want to Talk

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Clearly None of These People Want to Talk

Gesture Says- I'm Hot and Could Faint

A-Studio member Keti Topuria at the opening ceremony for the New Wave 2010 international contest of young pop singers.

What is nice about this gesture is that it was borne out of the theater in the early 1900s when actors were taught to use large gestures, and there was always a damsel in distress ready to faint and there was no other more cliche' way to show the audience "I'm fainting."◦

Gesture Says- I'm Hot and Could Faint

Scoop: Piers Morgan Not Choosen to Replace Larry King

So I was watching The Today Show this morning and Piers was asked if he was going to be the Larry King replacement. He said he couldn't talk about it.

But..Piers did a big nasal flair, showed disgust, and after answering the question exhaled.

Nasal Flare is a sign this can indicate the person is experiencing extreme displeasure. Flared nostrils may also indicate that the person is making an internal judgment about something. When you combine the disgust and stressful exhale and I have to believe he is not the replacement. If only I could find a place to bet on this.

Let's think for a second what else could cause the disgust and flare? Well lets think that maybe the interviewers were told not to ask about it... and Piers reacted to the lack of politeness... the reaction is too much for a lack of respect... too much for someone who would be interviewing on CNN every night, and from the UK, we would think he would be able to hold emotions more in check.

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Scoop: Piers Morgan Not Choosen to Replace Larry King

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron Runs His Hand through His Hair

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron reacts after playing cricket inside a stadium in New Delhi July 29, 2010. Cameron trumpeted a $1.1 billion defence deal with India on Wednesday, an early result of a big diplomatic push to court Indian business and tap new sources of economic growth.

After not doing so good the Prime Minister shows some shame, laughs at himself, and rubs his hand through his hair (to pacify himself). What is interesting about this gesture it is a guesture that our mothers and fathers do to us when we were little and is an enduring gesture, when we are older we do it to attempt to create the same sence of comfort that it once brought us.◦

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron Runs His Hand through His Hair

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the opening session of the foreign ministers meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo July 29, 2010. Abbas will tell the Arab League on Thursday that indirect talks with Israel have not progressed enough to justify face-to-face peace negotiations, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Even from the angle it is clear he is unhappy and his eyes are showing increase intensity.◦

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas