Giao tiếp thông qua ngôn ngữ cơ thể đã được hơn một triệu năm nhưng chỉ có được khoa học nghiên cứu cho bất kỳ mức độ trong hai mươi năm qua, nó đã trở thành phổ biến trong những năm 1970. | Eighteen Putting It All Together Communication through body language has been going on for over a million years but has only been scientifically studied to any extent in the last twenty years or so it became popular during the 1970s. By the end of this century it will have been discovered by people throughout the world and I predict that its impact and meaning in human communication will be part of formal education. This book has served as an introduction to body language and I encourage you to seek further knowledge through your own research and experience and through the examples given. Ultimately society will be your best research and testing ground. Conscious observation of your own actions and those of others is the best way for each person to gain a better understanding of the communication methods of the earth s most complex and interesting beast - man himself. The remainder of this book is devoted to social and business situations and shows how gestures and body signals occur in clusters and the circumstances that may affect your interpretation. However before you read the notes study each picture sequence and see how many you can interpret through what you have read in this book. You will be amazed to find how much your perceptiveness has improved. Clusters Circumstances and Gestures in Daily Encounters Figure 165 A good example of an openness cluster. The palms are fully exposed in the submissive position and the fingers are spread wide to give more impact to the gesture. The head is in the neutral position and the arms and legs are apart. This man is communicating a submissive non-threatening attitude. Figure 166 This is a classic deceit cluster. As he rubs his eye he looks away towards the floor and both eyebrows are raised to the disbelief position. His head is turned away and down showing a negative attitude. He also has an insincere tight-Tipped smile. Figure 167Inconsistency of gestures is obvious here. The man is smiling confidently as he crosses .
