What Does Your Body Language Tell Others?

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December 10, 2009

For the test, researchers videotaped participants during one-on-one interview sessions. Two types of behaviors were looked for in these tapes—the first being disengagement behaviors such as fidgeting and/or doodling, and the second being, engagement behaviors such as head nodding, laughing, and eye contact.

The results showed that nonverbal cues can give away a person's SES. Volunteers whose parents were from upper SES backgrounds displayed more disengagement-related behaviors compared to participants from lower SES backgrounds.

In addition, when a separate group of observers were given the clips to watch, they could correctly identify the SES class of the test subjects.

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