How to read a person, a small excursion

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Further from the author's words:

In the story “The Adventures of the Cardboard Box " Holmes demonstrates the ability to “follow the course of his companion's unspoken thoughts”, drawing conclusions about the sequence of thought processes from observing the accompanying groups of micro-behavioral keys.

Holmes claims that one person's "reasoning" can be “read” by another person's physical appearance, "and especially by their eyes."

Pose

• The pose has a significant impact on the internal processes of a person and at the same time reflects them. The researchers found that during the visualization process, people tend to try to stay in a straight position. When people listen, they tend to lean back slightly, cross their arms over their chest, or tilt their head to one side. When people experience emotions — whether positive or negative-they tend to lean forward and breathe more deeply.

Tone and tempo of speech

• Refers to nonverbal auditory keys. When people visualize, they usually speak a little faster and in a higher pitch. When experiencing an emotional state, the voice becomes quieter and speech becomes slower. The tone and tempo of the voice can serve as signs for triggering cognitive processes. People start to listen more actively when the other person changes the melody of their voice, tone, tempo and rhythm of speech.

Gestures

• Often, people use gestures to indicate the senses that are most active at the moment. They put their hands to their eyes when they are trying to visualize or understand something. Gestures are directed towards the auricles when people are listening or trying to hear something. People touch their mouths in the process of verbal thinking. When a person touches their chest or stomach, it usually serves as a sign of emotional feelings.

Eye movement

• They are seen as a window into consciousness. The direction of a person's gaze can serve as an important foreign key. The upward gaze usually accompanies visualization. As mentioned earlier, in Watson's description of Holmes, “with a dreamy, hazy gaze fixed on the ceiling”" Eye movement in the horizontal plane occurs, as a rule, in the process of listening. A downward gaze accompanies emotional experiences. Eyes turned to the left often indicate the process of remembering, to the right-about the work of imagination.

Speech

• Refers to language processes. For example, someone might say "I just feel that something is wrong here." This statement indicates a different (kinesthetic) sensory modality than the utterance: “I get a lot of negative feedback about this idea” (auditory), or “Something tells me to be careful” (verbal), or “I don't know what to do."This is absolutely clear to me” (visual). All these statements point to the involvement of various sensory modalities in the cognitive process.
• Develop this kind of observation by tracking strategies for remembering or making decisions. For example, when explaining directions to someone, dictating a phone number, or providing other information that needs to be memorized, observe your interlocutor's micro-behavioral keys as they are absorbed in the process of memorizing information.
• How does he change the position of his body, whether he stands straight and, if he leans, in which direction-forward, backward, right or left? If, for example, you are explaining the road, a kinesthetically oriented person can literally orient their body in different directions and gesture during your explanations.
• Does the person involuntarily use interjections like " Hmm...", " Aha...", does he move his lips soundlessly, as if saying something to himself? A verbally oriented person can repeat what they have heard several times.
• What are his gestures, if any, when he gestures at all? Does it touch the face, head, or torso?
• Pay special attention to your eyes and their movement. When a person thinks or remembers, where does he start looking-up, sideways, down? What can this say about the peculiarities of his thinking?