This 1 Tweak to Your Body Language Makes You Much More Persuasive, Says a Study of 2,000 TED Talks

To figure this out he gathered 200,000 video segments from more than 2,000 TED Talks and used AI to analyze the speaker’s ...

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 ...
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People Who Do This Kind Of Annoying Thing While Talking Almost Always Get What They Want

If you talk with your hands, some people may have described you as annoying before. But one USC professor thinks you're one ...
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Study finds certain hand gestures make speakers more persuasive

Researchers studying communication have found that how we move our hands while speaking may matter more than many people expect. Their work, recently published in the Journal of Marketing Research, ...