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In reply to the discussion: Seattle's "Outside Agitators 206" & why they want to drive a wedge between BLM and Democrats [View all]tblue37
(68,441 posts)pay close attention to body language.
She uses face, hand, arm, and finger gestures associated with aggression and, perhaps more important, dominance. She uses facial/mouth, and head movements associated with dominance and condescension.
And she also uses self-pointing gestures associated with narcisism. Many of those gestures are the same ones a body language expert has described in his analysis of Trump's and Cruz's gestures.
Here is his site, if you are interested:
http://www.bodylanguagesuccess.com
The study of body language is in its infancy, but it is interesting, and some of what this guy describes is pretty obviously true. Humans are a scial and hierarchical specues, so we are by our very nature "experts" at using and decoding facial expressions and body language, even if most of us never raise our use of these signals to a conscious level.