same person starts out leaning back and then gradually moves forward as the meeting progress, thats non-verbal communication. Why is body language so important? There are two principal reasons. The first reason is you have probably heard many times that people remember more of what they see than what they hear. Long after a meeting or interview, we are likely to have forgotten the exact words someone used, but we may retain a vivid image of the same person's facial expression. Second reason is through life experience we have learned, perhaps unconsciously, that people often lie with words. But facial expressions and other body language tend to be more honest. For example, I saw this movie in my other class, which is called Gesture. I noticed and I learned that one of the characters in the movie uses body language, which is scratching the nose in order to lie or get away to a crime. When a person's words and body language are consistent, we believe that person. When their words and body language say different things, we tend to believe the body language and doubt the words. For example, you say to a friend, "How was your interview boss?" Your friend says. "O.K." Then her smile vanishes and her hand tightens around the notebook she is carrying. Did your friend really do O.K. in that interview? Probably not, but she does not want to talk about her true feelings right now. When a person's facial expression differs from their words, your experience tells you to go with the visual cues, not the words. Body language or body movement is very important in our lives. We use in every single day in order to make clarity of words that we cannot express in language or speech. We must be aware that every body language we make could have different meaning with others....
