Why do we bother with the hard and imprecise work of trying to understand body language? After all, we’re already experts at it, more or less, with our unconscious minds, and those unconscious minds ...

Max Wagner shares the crucial aspects of body language that can give away more than a thousand words. From proximity to tonality, eye contact to hesitation, and even those pesky facial expressions, ...

Popular depictions of body language often focus on the ability to decode lying, scan someone to detect defensiveness, or uncover other such negative behavior. The idea is that people may say one thing ...

There are many things that technology can do well when it comes to monitoring body language. A computer can detect the slightest microexpression — something that even highly trained experts don’t ...