I’m atypical of people on this board, as some of you might know. I found it through my son, who fits the demographics much more. I’m a clinical social worker/ child therapist- thus my name “play therapist”. What I didn’t see mentioned, which I think is probably a more common problem than people not using the right body language to convey what they mean to, is not picking up on the body language, tone of facial expressions and tone of voice of people you are speaking to. I don’t have any easy answers about how to learn to read them, it’s something that is intuitive for most people. If you can learn to read people that way, though, it will be a huge help in social interactions. For example, when you say something and there is no response, there will usually be non-verbal cues as to whether you were heard.
Perhaps watching people taking acting lessons might help? Those people are trying to learn body language, vocalization, and effective communication, so seeing what they do when they get it right may help with learning how to read others.
I think watching people taking acting lessons must be a very good way to learn how to read others. Unfortunately, it’s not something that’s very convenient for most people to do. I think focusing in on the facial expressions and body language of good actresses and actors while watching movies, t.v., etc. would help, too.
I’m atypical of people on this board, as some of you might know. I found it through my son, who fits the demographics much more. I’m a clinical social worker/ child therapist- thus my name “play therapist”. What I didn’t see mentioned, which I think is probably a more common problem than people not using the right body language to convey what they mean to, is not picking up on the body language, tone of facial expressions and tone of voice of people you are speaking to. I don’t have any easy answers about how to learn to read them, it’s something that is intuitive for most people. If you can learn to read people that way, though, it will be a huge help in social interactions. For example, when you say something and there is no response, there will usually be non-verbal cues as to whether you were heard.
Perhaps watching people taking acting lessons might help? Those people are trying to learn body language, vocalization, and effective communication, so seeing what they do when they get it right may help with learning how to read others.
I think watching people taking acting lessons must be a very good way to learn how to read others. Unfortunately, it’s not something that’s very convenient for most people to do. I think focusing in on the facial expressions and body language of good actresses and actors while watching movies, t.v., etc. would help, too.