Greetings, Keith, I've used slo-mo video before and with good equipment it is possible to see a lot of 'microbehaviors' that go otherwise unperceived. Oddly, also, I tried speeding up the tapes and could then too see patterns that I had missed at regular speeds. We had one striking application of this, coaching a local, rising politician to discard of a habit that apparently irritated viewers; his ratings went up substantially after the coaching, though nothing else had changed. Not conclusive or controlled enough to be determinative, but it was pretty suggestive that a microbehavioral habit had a significant (and in this case negative) impact.
Keep up the good observation. I hope some day we can meet up and explore this further. Best regards, Lawry > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Keith Hudson > Sent: Fri, March 21, 2003 9:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] Perle's body language, etc > > > Hi Lawry, > > I'm sorry, I can't add anything more to what I observed -- except perhaps > that not only were his verbal responses delayed but also the smiles and > mock grimaces that he elected to make from time to time. Otherwise, the > stillness of his face and hands was not in any way unusual for politicians > and people in his position who are used to controlling themselves > carefully > when being interviewed. However, the delays in his responses -- and the > constancy of those pauses, whatever the difficulty of the question -- were > those of a master, in my opinion. As said before, I interpret this > behaviour as a consequence of long-time experience in considering every > question carefully, even the apparently innocent ones. In short, I thought > Perele's performance was that of a superbly trained diplomat, or senior > mandarin, unlike that of, say, Rumsfeld whose body language is extremely > labile and thus, quite readable. > > I can't help you with any other observations -- I was concentrating mainly > on what Perle was saying. I can't remember precisely what happened when he > was obviously momentarily thrown by a couple of cleverly-phrased questions > from the ex-ambassador and Dimbleby himself. It would be > fascinating to see > a slow-motion replay of his demeanour during those two brief episodes. I > suspect his facial muscles went haywire for a few microseconds! > > Keith > > > At 07:23 21/03/03 -0500, you wrote: > >Hi, Keith, > > > >Sorry for the delay in getting back: things have been busy. > > > >Many thanks for the report on Perle's body language. Very > interesting. Most > >people don't notice things as precisely or acutely, so > appreciate the info > >and the effort you put into reporting them. > > > >Did you notice anything about eye movements, by any chance, and > if so, can > >you associated a pattern of eye movements with a pattern of > subject matter > >being discussed? I would be very interested in any other > observations that > >you can recall: muscle tone changes, skin color changes, head > tilts, depth > >and pace of breathing, tone, volume, timbre of the voice, unusual word > >choice, etc. > > > >The two instances of what I would call incongruencies that you > report may or > >may not be significant; the incongruence can be genuine, but the > substantive > >significance of an incongruence must be is unclear until the subject's > >patterns are better known. > > > >I don't think that any of this (or intelligence either, though I am less > >knowledgeable about that) is genetic, or at least if it is in any degree, > >the reliability of the association would be much too low and > low-resolution > >to be useful in understanding or reading an individual. The kinds of > >patterns that I am looking for seem to cut across cultures and > ethnicities, > >with vastly more variation among members of a group than between groups. > >Over the years I have come to discount generalizations about > groups, and to > >pay attention to individuals to understand (those) individuals. > Of course, > >that increases the cognitive and research burden immensely. Did > you ever see > >the book, Body Language? It tried to suggest, for example, that some > >postures meant certain things about people, universally. Many > people bought > >into the notion both because it suggested ways of understanding > people and > >because it was easy. But, instead, it was misleading. > > > >We can now model the cognitive processes in individuals, but it remains a > >person-by-person undertaking, given the levels of precision we need. > > > >Again, many thanks, and I hope you might be able to add more, along the > >lines I ask, above. > > > >Cheers, > >Lawry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------- > ------------ > > Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com > 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England > Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ________________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
