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  2. Kinesics - Wikipedia

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    In a current application, kinesic behavior is sometimes used as signs of deception by interviewers looking for clusters of movements to determine the veracity of the statement being uttered, although kinesics can be equally applied in any context and type of setting to construe innocuous messages whose carriers are indolent or unable to express verbally.

  3. Posture (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Thus, body posture can reveal a person's current state of mind. Anger, sadness, and disgust are by far the most recognized body postures that are indicative of emotions. [16] Stress can affect posture subconsciously; a person under stress will often have a greater amount of muscle tension, and may also have shallow, clavicular breathing.

  4. List of human positions - Wikipedia

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    The sleeping position is the body configuration assumed by a person during or prior to sleeping. Six basic sleeping positions have been identified: [dubious – discuss] Fetus (41%) – curling up in a fetal position. This was the most common position, and is especially popular with women. Log (15%) – lying on one's side with the arms down ...

  5. Body language - Wikipedia

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    Such body language may be established gradually over a period of courtship. The body language of intimate relationships cannot be used acceptably in non-intimate relationships. [56] When people are in an intimate relationship, they often position themselves closer to each other than if they were in a different kind of relationship.

  6. Nonverbal communication - Wikipedia

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    The most important effect was that body posture communicated superior status (specific to culture and context said person grew up in) in a very efficient way. On the other hand, a study by Hsee et al. [ 95 ] had subjects judge a person on the dimension happy/sad and found that words spoken with minimal variation in intonation had an impact ...

  7. Posture - Wikipedia

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    Posture or posturing may refer to: Medicine. List of human positions. Abnormal posturing, in neurotrauma; Spinal posture; Posturography, in neurology; Other uses.

  8. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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    An asana (Sanskrit: आसन, IAST: āsana) is a body posture, used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga. [1] The term is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'seat'. While many of the oldest mentioned asanas are indeed seated postures for meditation , asanas may be standing , seated, arm-balances, twists, inversions, forward bends ...

  9. Power posing - Wikipedia

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    Amy Cuddy demonstrating her theory of "power posing" with a photo of the comic-book superhero Wonder Woman. Power posing is a controversial self-improvement technique or "life hack" in which people stand in a posture that they mentally associate with being powerful, in the hope of feeling more confident and behaving more assertively.