Body Language: What It Means and How to Read It

We communicate more with our bodies than we realize. Here’s how you can learn to read these silent messages.

The first way we learn to communicate is through body language — our facial expressions, our gestures and, when we’re older, our postures. Even after we figure out how to speak, this non-verbal communication still exerts a powerful and often unconscious influence over our interactions, people’s first impressions of us and even our impressions of ourselves.

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