How to Find Your Inner Cary Grant
Body language didn’t used to get much respect. Lynne Davidson, Ph.D., a professor of business and organizational behavior at New York University, quips about an incident in the mid-1970s when she was teaching social psychology at another institution. “I submitted a description for a course called Body Language and it was turned down because it was considered too trite and not academic enough,” she says. Without changing as much as a comma in the science-based course description, Davidson, who studied with masters in the field including Albert Scheflen, MD, got the course accepted by renaming it Kinesics and Symbolic Interactionism. (more…)
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Posted in: Self-promotion, branding, selling skills, Introverts' odds and ends Tags: Cary Grant, FBI, Joe Navarro, Johnny Carson, Lie to Me, Louder Than Words, Lynne Davidson, Malcolm Gladwell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paul Ekman, body language, introvert, nonverbal communication, self promotion for introverts
Posted in: Self-promotion, branding, selling skills, Introverts' odds and ends Tags: Cary Grant, FBI, Joe Navarro, Johnny Carson, Lie to Me, Louder Than Words, Lynne Davidson, Malcolm Gladwell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paul Ekman, body language, introvert, nonverbal communication, self promotion for introverts