Verbal communication is usually straightforward. You open your mouth and say what you want to say. Communication doesn’t only happen verbally. As you speak or listen, you also express feelings and ...

What do you know about nonverbal communication? My guess is that what you’ve learned, either in college or through popular media and common cultural lore, involves one or more of the following notions ...

Are some people better at nonverbal communication than others? I have spent the last 45 years studying this very topic: individual differences in people’s abilities to communicate through nonverbal ...

Ramin Skibba is an astrophysicist turned science writer and freelance journalist who is based in San Diego. This story originally featured on Undark. Last week, tens of millions of people tuned into ...