The Secrets of Body Language: An Illustrated Guide to Knowing What People Are Really Thinking and Feeling

by Philippe Turchet

Discover the ways you have been inadvertently communicating negative, positive, neutral, or mixed messages with the simple body movements you habitually make without even thinking about it. Know when someone is lying to you!

Do you ever feel that someone's gestures are telling you something different than the words they are saying? Has a cashier asked you how you are without glancing up from the items he or she is scanning? Have you ever felt that the firmness of your words is undermined by your feeble body language? Although spoken and written language may seem like our primary methods of communicating with one another, body language plays a strikingly prominent role, making up more than 90 percent of communication.

Turchet makes us aware of the true importance of body language in all contexts, relationships, and encounters, and explains how body language embedded in our genetic makeup has the remarkable ability to transcend the language barriers and communicate universal meaning. Chapters

In this enlightening book, find out what your own body language is telling other people, how you can read the signs of others' bodies, and how to most effectively utilize your own body movements to "say" what you really mean.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Science

368 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

Reviews

[Laure-Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

That's my first book about body language and it was very instructive. I particularly liked the final part, when the author explains how to apply (or not apply) on a daily basis : finally, it's interesting to decipher the body language of a conversation in which we're NOT involved (on the news for example) BUT to be spontaneous when we're involved so as not to prejudice our conversation.
I think it's an excellent book on the subject.

[Jeff Wong · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the premise that this author makes when describing the reasons why the person emotions are being manifested in the fashion that they are. Some if the reasoning makes intuitive sense and there is a great deal made about the different hemispheres of the brain and what portion of cognition is controlled by each. It seemed to be a considerable leap of faith in some instances to arrive at the conclusions describing the emotion being expressed (or suppressed) but at least it was thought-provoking. I anticipate returned back to his, almost as a reference book, when a gesture seems to be misplaced or incongruent.

[Kira Huiqi Ho · Rating 3 out of 5]

Light reading.

[Abbey · Rating 1 out of 5]

Interesting idea, poorly executed. Way too scholarly for a popular book - just didn't keep my attention.

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was interesting but there are much better books on the subject

[Randolph Breschini · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty basic body language book...great illustrations!