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The debate about the Merhrabian myth has been going on for a few weeks now, and Olivia Mitchell deserves congratulating for prompting so mu...

Followers of previous discussions of body language and non-verbal communication may be interested to know that the news from Germany about A...

The recent debate on various blogs about some of the myths about body language and non-verbal communication (on which see HERE and HERE ) h...

A few months ago, I made the point that Gordon Brown tends to pack far too much information into his speeches and still has to take notice o...

A few weeks ago, Olivia Mitchel l got quite a debate going on the blogosphere about some of the more ridiculous claims that have been circul...

Here's another cartoon on non-verbal communication (others can be seen HERE & HERE ):

Charles Crawford's blog has alerted me to some intriguing news about image-management in Moscow, that looks as though it was a cunning ...

If you've been following the recent debate about some of the more outrageous claims about non-verbal behaviour and body languge (e.g. HE...

Here's a simple exercise for anyone who really believes that only 7% of communication comes from the words we actually use. In the first...

It's more than 40 years since I started doing research for a PhD. Ever since then, I've naively thought that you really shouldn'...

If you enjoyed the cartoons posted recently ( HERE and HERE ), you might also be interested in this training video on body language and non...

Quite a lot of people seem to have enjoyed the cartoon I posted recently summing up the absurdity of the claim that only 7% of communication...

A recent posting on Olivia Mitchell’s Speaking about Presenting blog led to a lively exchange about the absurdly overstated claims that 93%...

I f you’ve been following the debate about how important body language and non-verbal communication really are, you shouldn't conclude ...

This cartoon strip is the briefest summing up I've come across of the absurdity of the overstated claims about the supposedly overwhelmi...