Introduction to Non verbal communication
Rule #1 Read gestures in cluster
As simple gesture taken out
of a wider context may be extremely misleading. And this is the mistake most
people make. Hence, one gesture is like a word in a spoken language. Body
language has its words, sentences and punctuation (Pease, 2004). Only when you
interpret a gesture with a much broader context. Moreover everybody has their
own set of gestures either learned or acquired in their childhood. Instead of
looking only at one’s hands, also pay attention to their eyes, feet or arms.