People who have raised dogs probably know that although some dogs are trained to seem more refined than humans, they will do whatever you say, but in fact, animals cannot understand our words and can only rely on body language to understand.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a German horse named Hans once attracted high attention from the world because this horse is not an ordinary horse, it can count.
Its owner, William von Osten, was a retired teacher. He bought Hans and taught Hans math classes. As a result, Hans actually learned to knock on his hoof counting.
In fact, Hans is not a genius horse. The reason why he gives the answer accurately is because Hans feels it by observing his master's body language every time he trains.
National Second-level Psychological Counselor, Master of Applied Psychology Master of Wang Miao 's book "The Secret of Body Language: Behavioral Psychology" is a book that author has made a figurative, in-depth and thorough interpretation of body language through the research results of behavioral psychology in the past 20 years and a lot of research and experimental data as materials. It has both theoretical knowledge and practical cases, which explains the "mysteries" of various body languages to us, so that we can better use them for us.
So what is body language?
The so-called body language, also known as body language, is a special language in which various movements of the body replace the language itself to express the meaning.
body language can be found in broad and narrow sense. Body language in a narrow sense refers to a language form that transmits information to the communication object through various parts of the human body and its tissue forms.
The broad body language not only includes the use of the trunk and limbs to convey information, but also includes the meaning expressed by facial expressions.
Some people say that body language is a science. If you understand body language, you can become a better communicator and make you achieve twice the result with half the effort when speaking. Appropriate body language can make you more sunny and confident.
Mastering body language can help us understand the other party’s intentions better in interpersonal relationships, and have a wide range of application value for engaging in business negotiations, sales management, corporate operations, and psychological consulting industries.
Why do you say so? Because body language doesn't lie.
In the business field, success and risks coexist, and interests and fraud coexist. If risks cannot be avoided, you may easily be deceived and suffered losses. This is well-founded.
A survey shows that there are about 1 million companies going bankrupt every year in the country, of which about 1/5 of them are deceived and closed down.
Therefore, being able to understand the other party’s body language will help us avoid risks to a large extent.
communicate with people. If you can’t understand body language, you will lose the opportunity to communicate in-depth with others.
As a psychological counselor, if you do not understand the client's body language, you will not be able to establish a better relationship with the client, thereby greatly reducing the treatment effect.
shows how important it is to study body language. So how to study body language? The book gives us two shortcuts. That starts with studying animals and children.
research animals, focusing on primate animals, because from orangutans, monkeys and other primates, we can see many traces of human limb movement evolution. Many of these animals' movements are particularly close to humans.
Research on children, focusing on babies and children. Because babies are rarely affected by the social environment, they still retain some of the most instinctive body movements of human beings. From these children, we can see the initial meaning of human body language.
In short, analyzing body language is still beneficial to all aspects of our lives. No matter what profession you are in or your age, it is worth reading this book. Maybe you will gain a different life.
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