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body language
(redirected from Pinocchio Syndrome)

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body language, nonverbal communication by means of facial expessions, eye behavior, gestures, posture, and the like. Body language expresses emotions, feelings, and attitudes, sometimes even contradicting the messages conveyed by spoken language. Some nonverbal expressions are understood by people in all cultures; other expressions are particular to specific cultures. Kinesics, the scientific study of body language, was pioneered by the anthropologist Ray L. Birdwhistell, who wrote Introduction to Kinesics (1952).
body language
the nonverbal imparting of information by means of conscious or subconscious bodily gestures, posture, etc.


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This is related to yet another phenomenon called the Pinocchio Syndrome, pertaining to a situation in which the public no longer trusts the facts and figures that are being thrust at them and decides that unethical, misguided, hopelessly compromised or merely puckish statisticians are simply making them all up.
 
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