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Mar 2 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
1/ THREAD: After President Biden mentioned "cops who walk the beat, who know the neighborhood, and who can restore trust and safety" in his SOTU Address, Merrick Garland displayed a #Microexpression of a Suppressed Smile.

#BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #SOTU
2/ Merrick Garland also exhibited a significantly high frequency of blinking while the camera was on him (he probably thought he was on camera during certain key times).
3/ Increased blinking frequency (above one's baseline normal rate) is a strong indicator of nonspecific anxiety (it's not correlated more strongly with honest anxiety or dishonest anxiety).

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Mar 1
1/ THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4635: Ron Johnson, Moscow, and the 4th of July
#VladimirPutin #BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #Moscow #Russia #RonJohnson #NonverbalCommunication
2/ I'm sure you remember back in the summer of 2018, over the July 4th Holiday — when Seven U.S. Senators and One Congress Person traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov.
3/ The Seven US Senators were Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Thune (R-SD), and Jerry Moran (R-KS) — and the one US House member was Kay Granger (R-TX).

Note all of these politicians are Republicans.
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Feb 28
1/ THREAD: Having 'Balls' is a colloquial for being brave/having courage. This is, of course, not only physiologically-psycho-socially incorrect — it's misogynistic, patriarchal, as well as a damaging and manipulative. It's a metaphor-myth.
#EmotionalIntelligence #BodyLanguage
2/
A. Courage does not originate in the gonads
B. Courage is not gender-centric
C. This " 'Balls' equates to courage" myth plays into the damaging worldview that:

Testosterone = Courage (it doesn't)
and that all courage is physical courage (it's not)
3/ It steers us toward tribal behavior and away from individuality — away from *Moral Courage*. For moral courage requires us to go against the group/tribe/family/company, etc. (i.e., whistle blowers).
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Feb 27
1/ THREAD: “Crack’s not really my thing, but if it was, it would be fine if I was on that side.”

This is a classic #StatementAnalysis full admission.
2/ This example is such a fundamental confession, that most people figure it out in their early teens or even younger.
3/ i.e., "I don't really like you, but if I did ..."

In large measure, (and in conversational speech in particular) the word "but" often means, "forget everything I just said" or "everything I just said isn't really true".
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Feb 27
1/ THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4634: Trump's Tick-like Nonverbal Behavior. #Trump #BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #CPAC
2/ The shoulder-shrugging and neck foreshortening (colloquially referred to in the video as 'twitching') is a subconsciously-driven, tick-like response Trump exhibits with extremely high frequency when he mispronounces words — and then tries to ad lib his way out of the mistake.
3/ This verbal-nonverbal-verbal cluster behavior is similar to a person coughing whilst simultaneously moving their chair position and/or shifting their buttocks in their chair immediately after farting — in an effort camouflage an embarrassing faux pas.
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Feb 27
THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4633: Putin and Trump a moment before joint presser at 2018 Helsinki Conference #Trump #VladimirPutin #TrumpPutinSummit #BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #HELSINKI2018
2/ The above image (and the close-ups following) show Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump just prior to beginning their joint presser during the 2018 Helsinki Summit.
3/ Despite being but only instant in time — from a nonverbal perspective, it's packed with information.

(See below for other analyses of this presser)
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Feb 20
1/ THREAD: Science is the pursuit of truths that reside at edge of the known and the unknown. Thus, one of the implications of science is what we often have to confront what we once held to be true. We must change our minds.
2/ Thus, there's a certain subtype of moral courage that scientists (and anyone who embraces science) must have. Those who are 'emotionally uncomfortable' with confronting their truths and beliefs — those who feel cognitive-emotional dissonance, rarely pursue science.
3/ The moral courage it takes in order to examine, confront, and overturn our previous beliefs, is a sign of emotional intelligence and emotional maturity of individuals, organizations, and societies.
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