What Is Your Body Telling People? | Otherwords

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You can choose your words as carefully as you want, but your body may be sending other messages you're not even aware of! Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and finds the fascinating, thought-provoking, and funny stories behind the words and sounds we take for granted. Incorporating the fields of biology, history, cultural studies, literature, and more, linguistics has something for everyone and offers a unique perspective on what it means to be human. Host: Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D. Creator/Director: Andrew Matthews & Katie Graham Writer: Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D. Producer: Katie Graham Editor/Animation: Andrew Matthews Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Fact Checker: Yvonne McGreevy Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Stock Images from Shutterstock Music from APM Music Otherwords is a production of Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios. © 2024 PBS. All rights reserved. sources: https://www.paulekman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WizardsofDeceptionDetection.pdf https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Wizards_Project https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/567135 https://www.verywellmind.com/understand-body-language-and-facial-expressions-4147228#citation-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language https://www.languageeducatorsassemble.com/5-definitions-of-language/ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ergo/12405314.0003.019/--what-is-language?rgn=main;view=fulltext https://www.stillmantranslations.com/language-functions-of-language-definition-of-language-translations/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/cats-facial-expressions-pets-behavior#:~:text=The%20analysis%20revealed%2026%20unique,17%20fell%20into%20both%20categories. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-do-we-have-eyebrows-and-other-types-of-facial-hair https://www.healthline.com/health/why-do-we-have-eyebrows#Whats-the-purpose-of-eyebrows https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1200155109?doi=10.1073%2Fpnas.1200155109 https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/03/study-facial-expressions-evolved-optical-needs#:~:text=The%20findings%20by%20Adam%20Anderson,to%20Charles%20Darwin's%2019th%2Dcentury https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/expressive-eyebrows-may-have-given-humans-evolutionary-edge-180968752/ https://news.osu.edu/facial-expressions-dont-tell-the-whole-story-of-emotion/ https://www.science.org/content/article/facial-expressions-including-fear-may-not-be-universal-we-thought https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/darwin-was-wrong-your-facial-expressions-do-not-reveal-your-emotions/ https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA650179500&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00280836&p=HRCA&sw=w&userGroupName=mlin_oweb&isGeoAuthType=true&aty=geo https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/science-tech-and-health/psychology/gasp-face-study-papua-new-guinea.html https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100619832930 https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1077788/ai-decoding-human-emotions-target-for-regulators/ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727446/full https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole-Van-Rootselaar/publication/326455980_Sensorimotor_lateralization_scaffolds_cognitive_specialization/links/5ba95b6a45851574f7e3f63b/Sensorimotor-lateralization-scaffolds-cognitive-specialization.pdf#page=274 https://www.businessinsider.com/hand-gestures-offensive-different-countries-2018-6#and-definitely-dont-give-a-thumbs-up-in-the-middle-east-6 https://englishlive.ef.com/en/blog/english-in-the-real-world/hand-gestures/ https://www.tripsavvy.com/hand-gestures-with-more-than-one-meaning-3149620 https://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/4-2-types-of-nonverbal-communication/ https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180722-cracking-indias-mystifying-nod-code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_bobble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_shake https://kensycooperrider.com/blog/why-does-a-nod-mean-yes https://kensycooperrider.com/blog/origins-of-the-shrug