In China, a business card, seating arrangement, moment of silence or choice of wording can carry more meaning than its ...

You are having dinner with friends, and the conversation is lively. Do your hands join the chat, or do they stay focused on your knife and fork? New research from Duke's Department of Psychology & ...

The handshake, once considered the gold standard of international greetings, has become surprisingly complex. Research has shown significant cultural differences in how Americans and people from ...

“TIE AN ITALIAN’S hands behind his back,” runs an old joke, “and he’ll be speechless.” The gag rests on a national stereotype: Italians are voluble and emotional, and all that arm-waggling supposedly ...

This post was written by Alison Fernandes, research affiliate at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala. Communication serves as the cornerstone of human interaction, intricately shaped by ...

A woman in Chennai, India, slices mangoes with a smartphone strapped to her forehead. This repetitive motion, performed for a ...

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...

A team of researchers from Australia, Germany and the U.S. has found evidence that the origin of human language was hand gestures rather than grunts. In their paper published in Proceedings of the ...

You are having dinner with friends, and the conversation is lively. Do your hands join the chat, or do they stay focused on your knife and fork? New research from Duke’s Department of Psychology & ...