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Visible Thought: The New Psychology of Body Language [Kindle Edition]

Geoffrey Beattie

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"'Geoffrey Beattie breathes new life into a thousand tired old cliches about body language. This is a fascinating book on two levels. The first is a serious scientific one arguing for new ideas about nonverbal communication. The second level is perhaps a shade less Nature and a dash more Heat or Hello. As Big Brother psychologist, Beattie is able to offer insights into such aspects of contemporary culture as Stuart's wink and Kate's eye contact. It's an excellent, provocative read.' - David Cohen, psychologist and author of How the Child's Mind Develops"

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Darting through examples found anywhere from the controlled psychology laboratory to modern advertising and the Big Brother TV phenomenon, official Big Brother psychologist Geoffrey Beattie takes on the issue of what our everyday gestures mean and how they affect our relationships with other people. For a long time psychologists have misunderstood body language as an emotional nonverbal side effect. In this book Geoffrey Beattie ranges across the history of communication from Cicero to Chomsky to demonstrate that by adding to or even contradicting what we say, gesutres literally make our true thoughts visible. A unique blend of popular examples and scientific research presented in language that everybody can understand, Visible Thought is an accessible and groundbreaking text that will appeal to those interested in social psychology and anyone who wants to delve beneath the surface of human interaction.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1059 KB
  • Print Length: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis (16 Mar 2007)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B000OI18G8
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  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #192,641 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Three out of Five for a reason 18 May 2006
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I rated this book three out of five stars in part because it was not what I expected and there seemed to be to much time devoted to his theory and not enough to the conclusion . I bought visible thought in an effort to understand body language and it's real world applications and while I can't say that the book failed completely I can say that there is very little within the pages of this book explaining which gestures generally convey specific meanings and how to interpret them. The book is chopped full of a page by page analysis of mr.Beattie's experiments that are compiled to convince the reader of the validity of his research and findings. I ultimately walked away from this book with a better understanding of what percentage of communication gesticulation plays a part of but other than that, I was some what bored with this read. Too much bread and not enough meat.

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through hand movements 'people unwittingly display their inner thoughts and ways of understanding events of the world'. &quote;
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First, the two languages may not be in any sense really separate, indeed I will argue in this book that they may be part of the same basic process. Second, language is almost certainly crucial to the communication of interpersonal attitudes, and classic experimental studies which suggest otherwise are themselves fundamentally flawed. Third and perhaps most important of all, the assumption that language functions to express thinking &quote;
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