The Cryptic Language of Non-Verbal Communication

Scientists are starting to decipher the things we don’t say with words

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
13 min readJun 25, 2019

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TTraveling through the Atlanta Airport recently during a period of heavy delays, Patti Wood could see the pain and stress etched on travelers’ bedraggled faces. Anybody could. You didn’t need to be an expert in body language to pick up the cues. People were leaning…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB