• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I think it’s a little naive to exclude body language when analyzing someone’s language. The latter half of your comment is true though.

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      4 days ago

      The truth, or proven facts, have nothing to do with body language or micro expressions. 2 + 2 = 4 no matter how big your smirk or how questionable your posture is. We all like to think we can read people like Sherlock Holmes or Sigmund Freud but that doesn’t make us right in our assessment.

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        4 days ago

        That doesn’t really have anything to do with what I was saying; they were making motions explicitly intended to communicate in concert with their speech.