How’s Your Poker Face?
The benefits of a poker face are widely extolled in poker but also in life. Poker faces help in cards, ...
How Good Are We at Detecting Liars?
How good are we at reading each other’s body language? This is an essential question for communication, since we convey ...
What’s the Use of Body Language?
Popular depictions of body language often focus on the ability to decode lying, or scanning someone to detect defensiveness, or ...
Bullying and Body Language
A couple of studies show that the effects of bullying on children are both long-term and significant. Significant, because bullying ...
What About the 10,000-hour Rule — Is It Still a Thing?
You’re probably familiar with the so-called 10,000-hour rule, the idea that what it takes – and all it takes – ...
Update on Stage Fright for 2024
Over the years, I’ve often recommended using positive mantras to help you deal with stage fright of all kinds and ...
Is Small Talk a Waste of Time?
Why do we humans make small talk? We spend a lot of time worrying about how to chit-chat amusingly, or ...
First, Let’s Kill All the Meetings
It’s a truism that people in organizations of all kinds suffer from too many meetings. As we wind down 2023, ...
Does Grammar Matter?
Does grammar matter? And did you have a teacher in your youth who insisted on drumming the rules of good ...
Healing Humans Requires the Communal Touch
I posted earlier this year about how a recent study showed that a single conversation a day with another human ...
