Words are the fuel of courtship. Other species win their mates through a series of escalating dances, but humans use conversation. Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. And yet the most frequent
Ninety percent of emotional communication is nonverbal. Gestures are an unconscious language that we use to express not only our feelings but to generate them as well. By making a gesture, we help produce an internal state. Amy Cuddy, a
Over the last few years, I have worked to help discovery scientists within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries make persuasive scientific presentations in order to sell their ideas for new drugs to decision makers. The challenges were many. Often, scientists