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David B. Givens
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“A recent invention, vocal language may date back only ca. 200,000 years. As human primates, we have not fully come to grips with the prolonged, face-to-face closeness required for speech. Speaking to a stranger, e.g., stresses our autonomic nervous system's sympathetic (i.e., fight-or-flight) division, which a. speeds our heartbeat, b. dilates our pupils, and c. cools and moistens our hands. The limbic brain's hypothalamus instructs the pituitary gland to release hormones into the circulatory system, arousing our blood, sweat, and fears.”
― The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of gestures, signs and body language cues
― The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of gestures, signs and body language cues
“Their combined verbal and nonverbal IQs make hands our most expressive body parts. Hands have more to say even than faces, for not only do fingers show emotion, depict ideas, and point to butterflies on the wing--they can also read Braille, speak in sign languages, and write poetry. Our hands are such incredibly gifted communicators that they always bear watching.”
― The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of gestures, signs and body language cues
― The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of gestures, signs and body language cues
“As the brain and body were shaped by natural selection, consumer goods adapted to the mind through a parallel process of product selection, which has rendered them ever more fluent, expressive, and fascinating to our senses.”
― The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of gestures, signs and body language cues
― The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of gestures, signs and body language cues
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