Posted on 10/15/2014 9:38:55 PM PDT by ransomnote
Full Title: Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 2982: Politicians Should Never Do This If They Want To Be Elected - Hillary Clinton's Body Language Faux Pas
If you want to build rapport with an audience or the voting public, don't do what Hillary Clinton does throughout much of this video clip. She is being poorly coached regarding her body language. While it is true that a conventional steeple does project power along with assertiveness and an alpha persona - it should be used extremely sparingly, only for a second or two and at very specific and important moments of a speech, interview or debate.
As with most alpha signals, those who use them tend to over-use them - which is exactly what Mrs. Clinton is doing during this speech. The logic that "more is better" absolutely does not apply here. So what in very small doses is an alpha nonverbal, when used just a bit more becomes a rapport destroyer. Too much conventional steeple projects arrogance, condescending and patronizing emotional tones. It destroys likability. And likability is THE primary influencing factor when it comes to winning over the swing-voter. The largest component of likability is the nonverbal portion followed by vocal qualities (aka paralanguage) with the actual words being spoken counting for a distant third.
When we like someone, we strongly tend to minimize our disagreements. And when someone is disliked, we artificially hyper-inflate those same points of contention. Likability is of course a commonly polled metric in the political world - yet essentially no one breaks it down to its components or has any systematic way of improving upon it. Thus politicians who rely on their autopilot will often crash and burn.
(Excerpt) Read more at bodylanguagesuccess.com ...
Because they’re rigged. Really...how hard would it be to defeat hilldebeast in an election? All you would have to do is make a montage of that horrible cackle and play it over and over on the TV...something like: do you want to hear 4 years of the cackle?
All this charade of campaigning and listening pretending to care is so demeaning.
Eye bleach need for that reply. YUCK!!
All that snacking goes to the hips, dontchaknow?
I always find her haughty and contemptuous so I was glad that someone called her on the steepled fingers.
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