Body Language Case Study

When we think about nonverbal behavior or body language we think about language, communication, and interactions and how it is understood. Social scientists spent numerous hours studying the effects of our body language along with other people’s body language and base their judgments off of the results. Those judgments could potentially affect the person’s outcome, whether it be a job interview, job promotion, and even who they ask out on a date. The confidence of the person is expresses on the individual’s body language. When we think of nonverbal we think of how we judge others and how they judge us and what the outcomes are. A study was conducted about the body language as a non-verbal communication tool, teachers ' were examined and asked

Nonverbal communication is a form of body language that is understood as a comprehensive tool via physical movements and changes that show a person’s feelings, thoughts, and attitudes about other persons and things. Through body language people share with other people their feelings, thoughts, desires, and helps us to understand their behavior according to their appearance at the point of decision. Eyes, facial expressions and gestures, hands, arms and legs, sitting a certain way all conveys a message, the way we interpret it is dependent on the individuals

If yes, Why?

These questions were developed by social scientists and studied, coming to a conclusion that body language is balanced into two different phases “high power & low power”. The deduction of the experiment was that male students seemed to have a “higher” sense of power and female students experienced a sense of “low power”. Scientists found out this is associated with the levels of testosterone and cortisol, leaders are individuals who were tested to have high levels of testosterone while low levels of cortisol, vis versa.

Another experiment was carried out by the Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden; determining the body language of adults who are blind. After interviewing five congenitally blind people, two adventitiously blind and two sighted blind people the university’s researchers came up with a determination. Fourteen hours of videotaped interviews were studied and assessed resulting in a typology of 19 different forms of body expressions. Typology is an analytical tool used for interpreting different body expressions of blind and slightly blind individuals. Every person expressed, for example, various spontaneous states of mind using the body, and a personal body style (idiosyncratic expressions). All the persons also expressed themselves in a functional and concrete manner, as indicated by the heavy occurrence of instrumental expressions, isomorphic representations, and pointings.