OK, so this isn't a question like the rest, but a few students asked me to help with a portion of their video. I've got a cameo in the following, can you find me?

http://youtu.be/tqfX3plrKdM

Does body language really matter?

photo from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evita_dando_un_discurso.jpg


Does it look like the person in the picture above is trying to emphasize a particular point? What emotion is she trying to attach to what she is saying?

In one particular lecture about presenting scientific research, I spend a few minutes talking about body language. Inevitably, a student usually asks this question, "do people place arbitrary meaning on body language, or does it really matter? The following video answers that question very well in the first 3-4 minutes.

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html

Need another example?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U9RfxYR5XA&feature=related

This one is just as interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evpn-U3t-i0&feature=related

Body language don'ts . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfE7aVa_mSo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PHwaE6rd4c

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Do you have a question I could answer? What is something you have always wondered about?