Reading Body Language in Life and Death Situations
Kevin Hogan
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So How DO You Understand Someone's Body Language?
What are some strategies I use
that I've never written about or talked about before?
Imagine that you've been accused of a terrible crime like rape
or murder.
The authorities have solid evidence you are guilty of this
terrible crime...but...you are...indeed innocent.
You have one chance to get on television and make an appeal
to the public that you didn't do it.
What's going to happen in that three-minute interview on the set?
You are going to perspire. Probably a lot.
You will look white because unlike the host of the show, you have
no make up on.
You will be nervous, not only about the fear you are experiencing from
living the nightmarish hell you are in, but the dimension of being grilled under
the lights is never so real as it is on TV.
The lights are hot.
Your anxiety level goes through the room because you have a lot
riding on your being on TV, or at least you think it's important.
The evidence is read off by the host.
They look at you with those convicting eyes.
They "know" you "did it" and are just looking for you to trip up.
They read you the evidence and as they do, you get this weird belief
that in some ways the evidence makes sense.
You squirm. You shift your feet and body, then realize that this might
make you look guilty so you freeze.
Your voice rises in inflection because your vocal cords have tightened
under the incredible stress.
Your attempts to appear calm while your heart bounces out of
your chest seem impossible to maintain.
Cool?
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