Speaking Anxiety: Gestures Help you Think

Speaking Anxiety: Gestures Help you Think

Aug. 23, 2007 by

Trying to master a mental task? Acting it out can help.  In a study reported in Cognition, when kids were told to use gestures as they learned to do a type of math problem, the lesson stuck.  Embodiment gives you–literally–another

Communication Skills Training: Facial Dialects

Communication Skills Training: Facial Dialects

Jul. 1, 2007 by

Traveling to a foreign country, we will have trouble communicating with the locals if we don’t speak their language.  We may also have trouble reading their facial expressions. Hillary Elfenbein of the University of California at Berkeley has done a study