Topic: personal-growth

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5 mistakes people make when reading your body language

Thursday, May 12, 2011 · Topics: interpersonal-communication, non-verbal-communication, personal-growth

From Leading Blog: When we communicate there are two conversations going on. Verbal and nonverbal. Our brains are hardwired to respond to nonverbal signals. Unfortunately we often don’t even know how we are reacting to them or how others are reacting to us and therefore are unable to use them to our advantage. This becomes very apparent when we are reacting to nonverbal communication from people from different cultures. Thus what might seem right in one culture may be ineffective or offensive in another. · Go to 5 mistakes people make when reading your body language →

Psychologists put “character” under the microscope and it vanishes

Thursday, May 12, 2011 · Topics: good-bad, neuroscience, personal-growth

From Scientific American: What can science reveal about our “character” — that core of good, or evil, that shapes our moral behavior? The answer, according to a new book, is that there may not be much of a core, after all. In “Out of Character,” scientists David DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdelsolo argue that how we think about character — a conception that dates back to at least the ancient Greeks — is deeply flawed. Our moral behavior, to a surprising degree, is shaped by the context in which we find ourselves. · Go to Psychologists put “character” under the microscope and it vanishes →