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The Jordan Harbinger Show

82: Vanessa Van Edwards | Pumping up the Volume of Nonverbal Communication

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Van Edwards (@vvanedwards) rejoins us to further discuss components of nonverbal communication. She is the lead investigator at human behavior research lab Science of People and author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People.

What We Discuss with Vanessa Van Edwards:
  • What Albert Mehrabian's commonly misinterpreted 7-38-55 Rule of Personal Communication is -- and isn't -- telling us about nonverbal communication.
  • The components of nonverbal communication including body language, facial expressions, and vocal tone, along with ornaments, proxemics, and haptics.
  • The dangers of focusing so fully on expressing yourself with one component of communication that you neglect the others.
  • The two metrics of essential nonverbal communication: confidence and engagement.
  • Power posing and movement, and how to use our hands and eyes to engage.
  • And much more...

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0:30.7

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer,

0:34.5

Jason DeFilippo. Today, we're back with Vanessa Van Edwards, a body language and non-verbal

0:39.5

communications expert and great friend of mine and of the show. Today, we'll discuss the components

0:44.8

of non-verbal communication, including body language, facial expressions, voice tone,

0:49.6

which of course you've heard of, but we also have some new concepts here that we haven't discussed

0:53.8

before, such as ornaments, proxemics, and haptics. We'll also explore the two metrics of

1:00.3

essential non-verbal communication, namely confidence and engagement, and how we can begin to

1:05.7

master each of these two concepts. We'll also dive into power posing and movement, as well as how

1:11.1

to use our hands and eyes to engage. Remember, there are worksheets for today's episodes, so you can

1:16.6

make sure you've got everything we talked about here today with Vanessa Van Edwards. That link is

1:21.0

in the show notes at JordanHarbinger.com slash podcast. All right, here's Vanessa Van Edwards.

1:27.4

Vanessa, thanks for coming back. I know you're about to, am I allowed to say anything that you're

1:30.8

about to pop? Oh, I mean, it's going to come out. I'm about to pop. I am almost nine months pregnant.

1:35.9

Great. Yeah. So good. Good thing we came in right under the line here, making sure that we got you

1:41.6

on the show one last time, because people, my producer goes, why is she coming back so early? She was

1:45.2

just on the show and I was like, because she's going to be out of commission for a while, probably.

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