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How Good Are We at Detecting Liars?

Nick Morgan2024-08-20T11:28:32-05:00August 6, 2024|Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

How good are we at reading each other’s body language?  This is an essential question for communication, since we convey ...

You Are Already a Body Language Expert

Nick Morgan2018-02-27T04:00:05-05:00February 27, 2018|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Non-Verbal Communication|

There’s a good deal of nonsense written about body language.  The idea most often expressed is that experts in the ...

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Body Language for Valentine’s Day

Nick Morgan2017-02-14T04:48:18-05:00February 14, 2017|Authenticity, Body Language, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

As most of us who are old enough to vote have learned, words and body language don’t always synch up.  ...

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How to Reprogram Your Brain and Gut for Excellence

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:14:33-05:00December 15, 2016|Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

The human body is an assemblage of systems that have a surprising degree of autonomy from one another, and that ...

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Do Your Gut Feelings Help You as a Speaker?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:18:32-05:00September 27, 2016|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

The story goes that when George Soros, the hedge fund bazillionaire, was still a fund manager, he would monitor his ...

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How Posture Affects Public Speaking Success

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:22:21-05:00September 8, 2016|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

Most of the research on posture and public speaking has focused on two aspects of body language that seem to ...

Here’s a New Reason to Trust Your Unconscious Mind

Nick Morgan2014-10-02T15:53:13-05:00October 2, 2014|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

It’s time to start trusting your unconscious mind. Most of us get the occasional hunches, intuition, or gut feel – ...

Do First Impressions Matter?

Nick Morgan2014-06-10T07:00:35-05:00June 10, 2014|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

How much do first impressions matter?  A great deal, as it turns out.  When we say first impressions matter, we ...

Why Speakers Need to Reign in Their Unconscious Minds

Nick Morgan2014-04-24T07:00:10-05:00April 24, 2014|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

As I discussed last time, the reality is that your conscious mind is beset by essentially random directives from your ...

Why Visualization Matters for Speakers

Nick Morgan2014-04-22T21:25:29-05:00April 22, 2014|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

A recent study by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Oslo found that imagining a series of images produced the ...