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A review by catherin9
The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
3.0
I found the content to be pretty hit or miss. The authors make a lot of generalizations that are sexist and optimized for more formal, hierarchical organizations. As a female at a tech company, a good portion of the book was irrelevant. As such, I found a lot of their conclusions given a set of body cues to be oversimplified and misleading.
That said, their focus on how different actions may be interpreted made me think more about how I present myself and how I can communicate most effectively. As my first foray into body language, this book gave me a set of tools to better decode and intuit people in complex situations and I found their grounding of some behaviors in evolution fascinating and an interesting way to think about our natural behavior.
That said, their focus on how different actions may be interpreted made me think more about how I present myself and how I can communicate most effectively. As my first foray into body language, this book gave me a set of tools to better decode and intuit people in complex situations and I found their grounding of some behaviors in evolution fascinating and an interesting way to think about our natural behavior.