I analyzed thousands of TED Talks. Talking with hand gestures makes you look more competent

When people use hand gestures that visually represent what they’re saying, listeners see them as more clear, competent, and ...
NBC New York

5 TED Talks that will make you smarter and more persuasive: ‘Conventional wisdom' for winning arguments is ‘wrong'

Winning an argument may boil down to one simple tactic: Getting people to listen to you. That's according to five TED Talk speakers, whose backgrounds — from business and law to journalism and ...
EurekAlert!

Want to be more persuasive? Talk with your hands, UBC study finds

Words matter — but your hands might matter more, according to a new UBC study which found that purposeful hand gestures can make speakers appear more competent and persuasive. The Sauder School of ...
The Press of Atlantic City

TED Talks exercise students’ powers of persuasion

ABSECON – Seventh- and eighth-grade language arts students collaborated to produce a TED Talk Tuesday, Nov. 22 at the Emma C. Attales Middle School. TED is a nonprofit organization founded in 1984 ...