Amy Caudy Body Language Analysis

Verbal messages carry majority of social meaning in a conversation. It is through nonverbal cues and clues that the sender and receiver are able to understand each other and exchange a message. This paper will explore the nonverbal communication exchanged in a scene from the program New Girl during season two, episode seventeen. The plot of this episode expands upon four roommates discovering their single parking space and arguing over who deserves it. The roommates consist of four guys and one girl; Schmidt, Winston, Nick, and Jessica. Due to Nick’s seeming lack of interest, they decide he shall be the “decider” and he chooses Jessica. Nick and Jessica have recently kissed, Schmidt claiming she had an unfair advantage. Therefore, Nick gets

“Remember that even without our conscious effort, the human body is always in an emotional state. That is why movement always has meaning, and why we are interested in it at all” (Beatty, 14).

Firstly, the concept I found most beneficial is affect displays. Affect displays is a communication action that uses gesture such as hands movement, shaky hands due to nervousness, or startle by shock. The uses of gesture communicate of one person emotions to its audience. For an example, Floyd stated ‘You probably know people who wring their hands when they’re nervous or cover their mouth with their hands when they’re surprised. Those are both affect displays because they coincide with particular emotions’ (Floyd, 2014). It follows that when one demonstrate the notion of affect displays as communicating is expressing emotion through their physical motion. For this reason

Facial Expression: The facial expression such as happiness, sadness, anger and fear helps a lot in conveying a message. These facial expressions are similar all over the world but non- verbal communication and behaviour varies hugely between the cultures in the world.Since the look on a person’s face is noticed , before we hear ,facial expression contributes a lot in a successfully non-verbal communication .

To build a rapport with Toula I would introduce myself and identify any of the first impression interest. Letting Toula know the confidentiality code of conduct, what it means to her and what my role is .I would also let Toula know that she is welcome to ask questions at any time she needs to .I would encourage Toula to open up by validating her feelings and experiences .Building a positive relationship by identifying any of the possible barriers that may affect her communication and using the body language technique will allow Toula to feel more comfortable and relaxed. By using the technique of paraphrasing it will allow Toula to hear what she has said and know that you are interested in what she is sharing with you.

I can see a young and confident man hovering proud amongst the powdered white lines on the grass. His sweat soaked body and open wounds are merely trophies on display for the witnesses of the battle just fought. This is where Amy Cuddy’s speech time warps me to as she discusses the history of the power pose. It is so easy to compare my competitive young self with these facts Amy shares. I would say that there is an undeniable truth that our non-verbal body language will stimulate others into forming judgements and opinions, or even share similar emotions.

must mean that gestures come from our primate heritage. When humans, like primates are happy they smile or laugh, when they win they have a big grin on their face, and when we are excited about something we yell or jump on up and down. Chimpanzees have the same reaction because if you go the zoo you can see them on top of a tree in the corner which means that they want to be alone, just like us. When we, as a species get mad you can tell by our movement like face get tight, we cross our hands, our teeth clenches, we have a fist hand, and have a look in our eyes. Primates like monkeys and gorillas show the same thing because when they are mad they scream

Amy Cuddy’s Ted Talk titled, Your body language may shape who you are, begins with Amy asking us to evaluate our posture. To evaluate the way we are sitting, are we trying to make ourselves smaller or are we more comfortable? Non-verbal expressions are the mostly unconscious way that we show our feelings. Some more dominant people tend to spread out and take up room while submissive types cross their legs or rub their neck. Her ideas are mirrored in graduate students that she teaches. The more dominant students come to class early, spread out, raise their hands high, and participate while the submissive students do the opposite. Amy questions whether it is possible to “fake it”, that is can we mimic the dominant people and in doing so make

Despite the fact that Amy Cuddy’s entire argument in “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” is on how to be powerful through body language, she demonstrates everything a powerless person would do. In her argument Cuddy states that powerful people make their presence big, stand wide and tall. Yet through her entire speech she barely takes up a square foot on the stage. Cuddy says, “What do we do when we feel powerless? We do exactly the opposite. We close up. We wrap ourselves up. We make ourselves small.” (4:55) However she fails to realize that this is exactly how she appears to the audience while on the stage. Her arms remain close to her body and she acts closed off to the crowd in front of her. She gives her audience examples of being

On March, 7, 2017, I watched the TED Talk of Amy Cuddy, a researcher. She argued that body language does affect how others see us, and it can also play an important role in the way we see ourselves. Specifically Cuddy claimed that a certain posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident, can affect our testosterone levels to result in having a higher chance at success in whatever fields there are. As she said “ if an individual needs to take over an alpha role sort of suddenly, within a few days, that individual's testosterone has gone up significantly.” Although some people believe that we can simply fake our feelings and postures until we simply become like them, Cuddy insisted that our postures do play a vital role in the way we

Paul Ekman was born in 1934 and at age 14 his mother committed suicide after suffering from severe bi-polar disorder. At that point, he decided he wanted to study facial expressions of emotion in order to assist other people before such tragic outcomes occurred. By the time he was 15, he had enrolled in University of Chicago and became interested in group therapy. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in 1954 and in 1958 he had earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Adelphi University. His Master’s thesis was about the study of facial expressions and body movement. From 1960 to 2004 he worked at the University of California and starting in 1963 he received continual research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health for 40 years to study nonverbal behavior.

Thesis Statement: Body language expresses emotions and actions unconsciously and differs between men and women depending on their brain type, emotional experience and culture.

Emotions play an extremely important role in human mental life. Unlike the chimpanzee, human emotions are easier to read because of their physical responses such as tears in their eyes or their lips changing shape. In the same way as chimpanzees, humans use gestures to communicate with each other, yet they use words instead of sounds.

Amy Cuddy’s speech on body language was incredibly powerful and useful. She begins by introducing the idea of posture, as body language can convey many things that can affect judgments made by others. People in general are influenced by nonverbal communications. For example our feelings towards political candidates or people's personalities are often affected. Amy Cuddy focused on power dominance. Power dominance can be observed on many levels, and can even be identified in animals. When a person feels power they open up, expand, this is a natural reaction to power. However, feeling powerless closes people, they try to become small. This can be observed when people of different power confront each other, their power can be seen through their body language. Gender can play a factor

I remember teaching a men’s workshop and a gentleman raised his hand and said, “What do we do, man? Our wives and children, we’re doing this, they’re doing the other. They won’t work with me ...” And he keeps going on and on and on. So, I let him get it all out. When he was done, I simply said, “Well, now you know how God feels.”