Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language

2023年06月01日

元 FBI 捜査官でボディランゲージの専門家ジョー・ナバロが、私たちが言語以外でどのようにコミュニケーションをとっているのかを解説します。たとえば、腕を組むということは何を意味するのでしょうか？なぜ指を組むのでしょうか？(English) Former FBI agent and body language expert Joe Navarro breaks down how we communicate non-verbally. For example, what does it mean when we fold our arms? Why do we interlace our fingers?

Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language

Summary:

In this video titled "Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language," Joe Navarro, a former FBI agent with 25 years of experience, shares insights into understanding nonverbal communication. Navarro emphasizes that nonverbals are crucial in interpreting people's thoughts and intentions. First, he debunks common myths surrounding body language, such as crossed arms indicating deception, and explains that these behaviours are often self-soothing gestures rather than indicators of dishonesty. Next, Navarro shares an anecdote about using nonverbal cues to uncover a spy's identity, demonstrating the practical application of reading body language. Finally, he explains his methodology, which involves observing various physical signals, such as hair, forehead, eyes, lips, cheeks, neck, shoulders, hands, legs, and feet, to assess a person's mind and reactions. Navarro emphasizes that studying nonverbals is not about making judgments but understanding the information individuals transmit through their behaviour. He concludes by emphasizing the critical role of nonverbal communication in human interaction and the need to pay attention to these cues for effective communication.

Nonverbals are anything that communicates but is not a word; the public knows them as body language, how we dress and how we walk have meaning, and we use that to interpret what's in the person's mind.

My name is Joe Navarro, and for 25 years, I was a special agent with the FBI. My job was to catch spies for most of my career.

I spent within the national security division a lot of it had to do with looking at specific targets, and then it was about well how we get in their heads and how we neutralize them; our security is based on nonverbals.

We look at the person through the peephole. We look at who's behind us at the ATM.

We know from the research that most of us select our mates based on non-verbal, so we may think we're very sophisticated, but in fact, we are never in a state where we're not transmitting the information.

There are a lot of myths. The ones that stand out are that it's a blocking behaviour if you cross your arms.

That's just nonsense. Even when you don't like the person in front of you, this isn't to block them out; it's actually to self-suit.

Because, in essence, it's a self-hug when you're sitting at a movie, and you're watching, you're going to cross your arms; you're waiting for somebody; you tend to do this.

Interestingly, we do this behaviour more in public than private; the other one that stands out is as we think about something.

We may look in a certain way as we process the information we see in another way; it's certainly not indicative of deception and shouldn't be used that way.

We can say is the person is processing the information.

The other misconceptions are that if the person clears their throat touches their nose, or covers their mouth, they're lying; we do these behaviours as self-soothers their pacifying behaviours scientifically and empirically.

There's just no Pinocchio effect, and people who prattle that and say well, we can detect deception because the person touches their nose or covers their mouth, that's just sheer nonsense.

We, humans, are lousy at detecting what we see in movies, and in one of the cases, we had information from another country saying you have an American.

We think he is a mole who somehow entered the united states and can pass as an American, but he's here working for a hostile intelligence service and just fortuitously, he was videographed coming out of a flower shop; we're looking at the video.

And everybody in our small unit said, "Well, there's not much there; he's coming out of the shop, " I said, "Stop the film right there just as he went out of the shop.

He took the flowers, and most Americans tend to hold the flowers by the stock so the flowers are up.

This individual took them, grabbed the stock, and held the flowers face down.

And I said that's how they carry flowers in Eastern Europe; rather than confront him about whether you are a SPY, I decided to do what's called a presumptive as I sat there with him.

I said would you like to know how we know and he had this look on his face, and I said it was the flowers.

And then he confessed when I entered law enforcement; I thought it was all about the confession.

It's really about face time. In my 25 years in the FBI, it was a rarity that a person didn't eventually reveal what I needed to know.

Because we would sit down and have these lengthy conversations, I look at behaviours to assess what this person is transmitting about any stimuli.

My further questioning comes from my observing these behaviours the first thing.

I look at is I look at the hair; does it look healthy? Does it look well groomed? The forehead is very interesting.

Because a lot of times we reveal stress, a lot of the things that we have gone through in life are often etched on the forehead. I look at my eyes to see if they're red or if I have insufficient sleep.

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The small area between the eyes, called the glabella, 's's one of the first areas that reveal information to us most often.

When we don't like something, we do that bunny nose.

If I don't like it, we don't know what our lips look like, and we tend to compress them when something bothers us.

We tend to suck them in the mandibular and look at the cheeks.

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We may do something like this, we'll rub our tongue against the inside of the cheek, but when we try to hide it, it tells me that this person is trying to do some perception management.

And if they are, I want to know why at the neck. I want to see if there's a head tilt because head tilt, the person is more relaxed the minute the head tilt goes away.

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I'm looking at the shoulders; you ask somebody a question they don't know, and both shoulders shoot up quickly.

And then I look at the hands; when something's troubling us, we tend to stiffen our fingers and interlace them, and almost like a teepee, we move our hands back and forth very slowly; this is to be differentiated from when we do the steeple which we do in this position.

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We tend to put our hands on our hips when something's at issue and become very territorial. This is called the arms of Kimbo, but look how it changes when we put our thumbs forward. Then it becomes one of more of I'm inquisitive, but I also look for any behaviours of ventilating.

Because men tend to ventilate at the neck, and we do at the very instant something bothers us.

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And then I look at the legs to see if there's any brushing of the legs with the hands, which is again to soothe and then the feet. Do I know any behaviour, such as wiggling or kicking the feet?

If I ask a question and suddenly the feet withdraw and are crossed, perhaps the person feels a little threatened by that question, so when we study nonverbals.

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It's not about making judgments. It's about assessing what this person is transmitting at that moment.

It is looking at an individual and saying what they are transmitting.

We're all transmitting at all times. We choose the clothes we wear, how we groom ourselves, how we dress, and how we carry ourselves.

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Are wAre we coming to the office on this particular day with a lot of energy, or are we coming in at a different pace?

And we look for differences in behaviour, down to the minutia of this individual's posture as they walk down the street. So, for example, are they inside the sidewalk on the outside can?

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We see his blink rate. Can we see how often he's looking at his watch? I know your blink rate is around eight times a minute, but you don't know you're not sitting there counting.

All these things factor in because they're transmitting information now. So it's up to us to use that information to say, okay, we need to marshal resources to be on that individual right now.

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In college in the early 70s, there were no courses on nonverbal communication. You quickly realize that, to a great extent, it's really about what you can interpret from behaviour.

And so we talk about non-verbals because it matters. After all, it has gravitas and affects how we communicate regarding nonverbals. This is no small matte. We primarily share nonverbally, and we always will.

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