I actually think that people who speak with their hands too much come off as exceedingly primitive. I just can't help but be distracted by overtly emotive people - though perhaps that's the trick they are looking for, so long as it draws attention away from the usually vapid content of their presentation or otherwise weak communication skills. That's not to say that I don't motion in my speech sometimes - indeed, I am an upright meatsack like everybody else - but people who do it too much or try to make a point out of it just scream fledgling business major or air traffic controller to me.
EddieZilker
Psychopaths tend to punctuate sentences they're speaking with more hand-gestures or beats, as researchers call them.
diesel_tron3000
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Originally posted by EddieZilker
Psychopaths tend to punctuate sentences they're speaking with more hand-gestures or beats, as researchers call them.
you got the wiki on that?
jewbilee
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Originally posted by jennypie
Bear with me, I'm not as articulate as some of you s.
Cultural influences on communication aside, I was wondering whether there was a correlation between intelligence and use or non-use of expressive non-verbal communication.
On one hand, I think that a person who gesticulates a lot and makes very overt facial expressions might be showing greater intelligence, in a kinesthetic sense. In a way I can see this type of person being more wholly in tune with what they think and feel.
But on the other hand, does it not show a different type of intelligence to be able to express more, with less?
This applies to not only the sender of the message, but the receiver, too. To be able to perceive more on less information seems, uh, smarter?
I thought about this with words, too...and the ironic fact that to be able to communicate with less words, one actually has to know a whole load of 'em.
I suppose this all depends on how one defines intelligence, but I'm not looking to get into a debate about that, either.
Anyway, as I thought of this, I made it seem perfectly logical in my mind that we should be able to communicate telepathically. Right? RIGHT??
Oh yeah, and I was watching Bob Blumer's 'Glutton for Punishment' just now and he was in a nettle eating and beer drinking competition - and it made me think of ********.
intelligence?! did some girl make you feel insecure?
Silky Johnson
Yeah that's it, lol.
jewbilee
you don't have to get defensive. it's just a question.
Silky Johnson
You're an idiot.
EddieZilker
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Originally posted by diesel_tron3000
you got the wiki on that?
I believe I read it in Without Conscience by Dr. Robert Hare and, subsequent to that reading, saw it in a program called Most Evil on Investigation Discovery.
igottaknow
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Originally posted by EddieZilker
Psychopaths tend to punctuate sentences they're speaking with more hand-gestures or beats, as researchers call them.
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EddieZilker
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Originally posted by igottaknow
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Kind of - yes, but it's more prominent. I believe Hare described it as though it were almost less about emphasis and more about rhythm.
