I used to track social groups and the speed of interactions at my high school by saying something weird and specific and making a note every time I heard those exact words.
Interesting use of the information. I could see how it might make a performance more convincing. Also, do you feel the addition of the body language adds to your emotional connection to the character? Just curious.
Oh my. I'm glad I found your comment cuz as an artist it's one of my goals to be able to imitate the human figure on the canvas. I'll look into his books immediately ty!
I feel better knowing there's a reason for freezing up when something scary happens to you. I was molested in the street, and froze up. Afterwards I could not understand why I didn't respond in any way. It's not very useful nowadays, but I'm glad to know it has some survival function.
So sorry to hear about your experience. Yes, it is not uncommon to freeze when you are in a dangerous or scary situation. It wasn’t your fault and it wasn’t consent. While we all have different ways of healing, please consider counseling with an experienced specialist or support group.
@@Elektrikkiss very true. I should have said, "I always thought it happens because..." Because that is what I really meant. Thank you for correcting that.
His hands are open palmed most of the time....welcoming behaviour.…human body language is very interesting. Couldnt have been better explained than this. I definitely learned something today.
People go to school for years and write books and books to answer that kind of question. But Ill say this: Aspergers disorder symptoms were a lack of emotional awareness and expression. The disorder was reclassified as "low functioning autism" some years back. So with Autism, I would say most of the time nonverbal communication is absent (However, I imagine an esoteric subject that they are into might contain a signal that might noticably grab their attention).
I never had any clue that I consistently grasped at my heart when I would hear sad news until my husband told me. When I payed attention I realized that I would actually feel a pain there that felt like it needed to be soothed.
During my training as a psychologist, I was taught to recognize subconscious body language. So now when I have to speak with those in law enforcement...I purposefully send certain signals to cause relaxation & comfort and familiarity. If they're being azzholes, I send different signals to throw them off. Once you know how THEY have been taught to think, they are easily manipulated.
I have problems exhibiting and evaluating social and emotional responses, and learning these body language cues help me a LOT. For example, grasping the back of your neck while someone is talking indicates that you are listening to them. I have horrible adhd and I do this one whenever I realize I'm not paying attention. Another big one is eye contact. It's so complicated it drives me crazy. I Iearned that if you keep your gaze just above someones eyes (brow or forehead) it asserts confidence and makes people see you as somewhat dominant. Social cues suck.
This man is so fascinating, and for Autistic kids, who cannot really read body language, great lessons as well in human interaction and interpretation.
Who else is watching this and feels like all your senses are super heightened? I’m like looking around the room all quickly like “yeah my orientation reflex is strong 💪”
4:30 I have heard a different theory; newborns and infants spent 9 months crammed into a small, warm space, so when they reach out, they are expecting to feel the comforting confinement of the uteral walls. They wake-up when they reach out, and feel nothing but air, it startles them. I imagine that most normal functioning people out grow that reflex by about 2 years old . . . .
This is really interesting. But just as much as this is nature, the limbic system can be conditioned. For example survivors of trauma can get stuck in a state of freeze.
Wouldn't you call that a manipulation instead of conditioning? English is not my first language so I might be wrong but wouldn't conditioning be training done with a goal in mind? I don't think when experiencing a trauma people do that to train their brains
@@marinalechner556 Conditioning is EXACTLY a manipulation. Training has some goal, and is never random activity. One can train one's brain to dissociate, or to become more effective and attentive. Dissociation is to enormously reduce attention to sensory reality.
@@marinalechner556 Manipulating in English tends to have a pejorative nuance to its meaning, when applied to living creatures. We don't manipulate ourselves, in English, because of this. People tend to consider manipulation an external force, either used on us or used by us upon someone else, but not in a good way for the recipient's benefit. Think Miss E is using 'conditioned' in the passive, so the human being is not conditioning themselves but becoming conditioned by some habitual or frequent danger or by a danger so threatening that even one experience can trigger off the same freeze, for example, at the slightest hint of a possible similar threat recurring: it is not voluntary, it is not conscious or deliberate. That is a conditioned reaction that usually involves a trauma which convinced the person that his or her life might end at any minute and is a memory so strong that it is not recognised by the conscious mind. In short, terror.
I actually have that neck reaction pretty often when I'm dealing with a situation that's stressful or uncomfortable I usually end up reaching up and placing my right hand like halfway on the side of my neck and halfway kind of wrapped around the front gently I'm so glad to hear that this is just a normal sort of reaction and not some weird tick
I really like Joe. His video on the election candidates made me look at both of them completely different as I spotted a lot of the behaviors he talked about. It was really interesting.
First time I went wild camping alone a Cougar sniffed my neck through my tent (Ionosphere snugpak) and I froze for like 20 mins. Scary af and I wondered why I felt paralysed when I wanted to try to scare it away. Very interesting video.
Same! I have cptsd, and my senses go off chart all the time... it's very tiring. I wish sometimes I could turn off my hypervigilance.... I don't know how to explain it, but is really is absolutely exhausting....
i think this guy is sitting there wondering "am i really teaching 40 thousand people on youtube how to read body language in 10 mins, yet it took me years for it?"
Also, I noticed the DSM-V on your shelf. Is there any correlation between your insights and experience into body language reading and the determination of mental health issues? Thank you in advance.
Could the tucking in of thumbs have something to do with the face that when chimps attack humans, they go for the face and the fingers/hands? It might be how we used to fight amongst ourselves or at least how our common ancestors did?
is it weird that I used to always hold my hand in that position? i would just be chilling and then I just feel like my neck is too exposed. now it's with my wrists and the back of my ankles, I feel like I have to protect them. is something wrong with me?
I can see how these are so popular, such interesting stuff. (And I'd been curious about that suprasternal notch bit at the end once I came across this guy, nice)
Speaking as someone with a specialized military background and now a Psychotherapist (Psy.D.) EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE RESPONSES CAN AND ARE TRAINED AWAY TO ACHIEVE A SUPERIOR TACTICAL ADVANTAGE‼️ These trading are long, relatively slow to achieve, but one imprinted, become a higher ranked instinctual response then ANY Limbic response. This will make highly trained and specialized soldiers, orders of magnitude more effective than non-trained soldiers. If we’re putting all our cards on the table, this means breaking someone down systematically and psychologically, over and over, repeating specific training, over an extended period of time. Now, to acclimate these highly specialized operatives to regular, run of the mill life, they must be just as purposely, re-acclimated to a civilian tone of existence. But make no mistake, they were broken down, and can never go back to their pre-military “normal”‼️
Correction: The limbic system is also called the _paleomammalian brain_ (or _system_ )-not the _mammalian brain,_ of which it is part, along with the _neomammalian brain._ (The neomammalian brain or system is the upper, outer part also called the _neocortex_ or often just _cortex._ It is newer-hence "neo"-and handles higher mental functions.)
Idk why y'all are nagging THIS guy is an fbi agent! He's a genius! He agreed to collaborate so that ppl will be more aware about certain stuff and that amaaaaazing!
What I immediately thought of and find interesting is that I have personally (and seen others) froze and stopped moving when crossing the road and it appears a car is about to hit me. Strange to think about how an instinctual survival response can so easily kill you in the modern day.
ALL sensory experience is processed through the limbic system. It is primary to brain response. Rhetoric, the use of symbolic noises, may disguise , mislead, or elaborate, but rest assured, the limbic processing does not hijack, but instead brings together evolved, as well as learned responses. We learn through periods of rest and sleep, to associate novel sensory information to correct whatever was learned in the past - to update our heuristics. Australopithecus is literally "southern Ape." Take that as you will, even if some did not fully move to Mar-a-lago until close to the end of their life..
I cannot let anyone or anything touch around the front of my neck ever since I was little,even now it takes a lot of will power to allow such contact,even the softest ones.
I can listen to this man for hours.
He is indeed an excellent communicator, for sure a great professor.
Same but I cant listen to my teacher of 30 mins b4 falling asleep
@@damaribrackett1159 You must be studying physics
Same here.
The way he tells it is interesting.
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All the quiet kids in the corner are already pros..
someone actually said it.
i gotta agree w you, as a former quiet kid who sat in the corner
Quietest person is the most observant.
I used to track social groups and the speed of interactions at my high school by saying something weird and specific and making a note every time I heard those exact words.
Well, I guess that makes me Argus . . . .
*Hi*
Joe is a genius! I've been using his body language knowledge to be a better actor, his books are so worth it
Interesting use of the information. I could see how it might make a performance more convincing.
Also, do you feel the addition of the body language adds to your emotional connection to the character? Just curious.
Me too!
Oh my. I'm glad I found your comment cuz as an artist it's one of my goals to be able to imitate the human figure on the canvas. I'll look into his books immediately ty!
@@francescaa8331 emotions are directly connected with your body
@@arjundube8380 artist and actor were discussing body language and how to use in art. I was commenting on that. I have no idea what your WTF is about.
I feel better knowing there's a reason for freezing up when something scary happens to you. I was molested in the street, and froze up. Afterwards I could not understand why I didn't respond in any way. It's not very useful nowadays, but I'm glad to know it has some survival function.
I really felt bad after reading that you were molested
So sorry to hear about your experience. Yes, it is not uncommon to freeze when you are in a dangerous or scary situation. It wasn’t your fault and it wasn’t consent. While we all have different ways of healing, please consider counseling with an experienced specialist or support group.
Hindsight is 20/20. Evidently, your reaction saved you. 😓
Yeah, that happens because if you run they'll do a heck of a lot worse. Interesting, isn't it? (Sad, really.)
@@Elektrikkiss very true. I should have said, "I always thought it happens because..." Because that is what I really meant. Thank you for correcting that.
This was extremely fascinating especially the reflexes in babies.
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His hands are open palmed most of the time....welcoming behaviour.…human body language is very interesting. Couldnt have been better explained than this. I definitely learned something today.
People after watching 3 videos of this guy : Hi I am a non-verbal communications expert.
Joe Navarro: talks about complexity in human brain.
People in comments section: tiger in Africa?
They are a little bit behind on the evolutionary scale
No they’re speaking facts..besides zoo’s, there are no wild tigers in Africa
@@InDuhskreetzDiscreet To cut him some slack, he's an expert in humans, not animals haha
Probably there was the saber tooth tiger back then
How does 'normal' non verbal communication differ in people on the autism spectrum and other psychiatric disorders?
People go to school for years and write books and books to answer that kind of question.
But Ill say this: Aspergers disorder symptoms were a lack of emotional awareness and expression. The disorder was reclassified as "low functioning autism" some years back. So with Autism, I would say most of the time nonverbal communication is absent (However, I imagine an esoteric subject that they are into might contain a signal that might noticably grab their attention).
@@CyberCheese392 don't you mean HIGH functioning? I'm pretty sure asperger's is on the high end, not low end
@@nexusSix_237 Yes you are correct. I got mixed up. It is called high-functioning autism, which is low on the autism spectrum.
"normal"??
like voluntary stuff??
On new born hospital wards, testing the Babinski reflex is part of the routine health check
Every guy is now like "Sorry honey, I'm not trying to ignore you by watching sports, I can't help it. It's part of my survival instinct!"
It's part of ur coping
Joe is amazing. He was a guest on a series I hosted for the Discovery Channel a number of years ago. Super smart guy and nice, too!
I'll avoid these when im lying, an outstanding move for me.
Better yet, don't lie and you won't have to think about your non-verbal cues.
*Sweats in Limbic*
I never had any clue that I consistently grasped at my heart when I would hear sad news until my husband told me. When I payed attention I realized that I would actually feel a pain there that felt like it needed to be soothed.
Vagus nerve, most likely.
If he taught a class I'd be there every day
During my training as a psychologist, I was taught to recognize subconscious body language. So now when I have to speak with those in law enforcement...I purposefully send certain signals to cause relaxation & comfort and familiarity. If they're being azzholes, I send different signals to throw them off. Once you know how THEY have been taught to think, they are easily manipulated.
My gma is a psychiatrist she reads me every day. I do believe you. It’s a bit intimidating.
make a video about it ))
what are some signals that you use to cause comfort and familiarity?
I have problems exhibiting and evaluating social and emotional responses, and learning these body language cues help me a LOT.
For example, grasping the back of your neck while someone is talking indicates that you are listening to them. I have horrible adhd and I do this one whenever I realize I'm not paying attention.
Another big one is eye contact. It's so complicated it drives me crazy. I Iearned that if you keep your gaze just above someones eyes (brow or forehead) it asserts confidence and makes people see you as somewhat dominant.
Social cues suck.
@@LuchadorMasque maybe you have a touch of asperger's along with that adhd? ?? ...its a good thing!
I've always found it hard to focus when I'm at sports bars (the ones with huge tvs everywhere). Now I know why!
Cool! As a dentist, I am constantly battling limbic response
wow yeah, we feel like we're in danger in the dentist's even though we're really not and our body goes into survivor mode.
Never thought about that 😀
I need a channel with just this man. I have watched all his videos
This has to be the most interesting thing I've listened to in months.
I love this series, so interesting to learn about these kind of stuff
This man is so fascinating, and for Autistic kids, who cannot really read body language, great lessons as well in human interaction and interpretation.
Fun fact - Babinski reflex is part of the infant neurological exam in medicine. Very useful for assessing spinal chord injuries or abnormalities.
Thankyou for making a Joe a regular on your videos!
Who else is watching this and feels like all your senses are super heightened? I’m like looking around the room all quickly like “yeah my orientation reflex is strong 💪”
4:30 I have heard a different theory; newborns and infants spent 9 months crammed into a small, warm space, so when they reach out, they are expecting to feel the comforting confinement of the uteral walls. They wake-up when they reach out, and feel nothing but air, it startles them. I imagine that most normal functioning people out grow that reflex by about 2 years old . . . .
That makes so much more sense than the evolution theory.
This is really interesting. But just as much as this is nature, the limbic system can be conditioned. For example survivors of trauma can get stuck in a state of freeze.
Wouldn't you call that a manipulation instead of conditioning? English is not my first language so I might be wrong but wouldn't conditioning be training done with a goal in mind? I don't think when experiencing a trauma people do that to train their brains
@@marinalechner556 what is your first languagev
@@marinalechner556 Conditioning is EXACTLY a manipulation. Training has some goal, and is never random activity. One can train one's brain to dissociate, or to become more effective and attentive. Dissociation is to enormously reduce attention to sensory reality.
@@marinalechner556 Manipulating in English tends to have a pejorative nuance to its meaning, when applied to living creatures. We don't manipulate ourselves, in English, because of this. People tend to consider manipulation an external force, either used on us or used by us upon someone else, but not in a good way for the recipient's benefit. Think Miss E is using 'conditioned' in the passive, so the human being is not conditioning themselves but becoming conditioned by some habitual or frequent danger or by a danger so threatening that even one experience can trigger off the same freeze, for example, at the slightest hint of a possible similar threat recurring: it is not voluntary, it is not conscious or deliberate. That is a conditioned reaction that usually involves a trauma which convinced the person that his or her life might end at any minute and is a memory so strong that it is not recognised by the conscious mind. In short, terror.
I thought this was going to be more practical examples, but I learned a lot.
This is by far the most fascinating and interesting view. Thank you for your profound vid.
Thank you Joe Navarro, especially for 3:15-3:50
The amount and variety of what he needed to study blows my mind!
Love Joe Navarros books! These videos with him have made me buy and finish 3 of his books so far
Utterly enthralling-I could listen to this stuff all day! 😍
should have done former FBI agent plays among us or smt
Yeah and then he starts calling people sus
There is actually S.W.A.T youtuber who plays Among us. Pretty nice guy actually. Forgot his name tho
@@ionela7374 just vote him out
I actually have that neck reaction pretty often when I'm dealing with a situation that's stressful or uncomfortable I usually end up reaching up and placing my right hand like halfway on the side of my neck and halfway kind of wrapped around the front gently
I'm so glad to hear that this is just a normal sort of reaction and not some weird tick
I absolutely LOVE this man! I love how he explains things and his passion for the craft is evident.
I really like Joe. His video on the election candidates made me look at both of them completely different as I spotted a lot of the behaviors he talked about. It was really interesting.
He communicated so well...love him!
I have watch everything that has Joe's name on it. His books are also fantastic.
First time I went wild camping alone a Cougar sniffed my neck through my tent (Ionosphere snugpak) and I froze for like 20 mins. Scary af and I wondered why I felt paralysed when I wanted to try to scare it away. Very interesting video.
Former FBI agent spies on my FBI egent
And bears oh my. I couldn't help it 🤣🤣🤣
Read his book, it’s brilliant
How interesting. I learned about the rooting and moro reflexes long ago in developmental psychology but was never told why we do that.
I have PTSD. I always look around at any difference in pattern or movements. It is a reflective response due to what gave me PTSD
Same! I have cptsd, and my senses go off chart all the time... it's very tiring. I wish sometimes I could turn off my hypervigilance.... I don't know how to explain it, but is really is absolutely exhausting....
@@chellefell1331 Breathe. 😃
He’s very knowledgable about neuroscience .💯
This information is unvaluable.
Thank you to the investigator
Saw this guy again whilst scrolling and was like 🙌🤩 I have to watch this ASAP
i think this guy is sitting there wondering
"am i really teaching 40 thousand people on youtube how to read body language in 10 mins, yet it took me years for it?"
0:57 and bears, oh my!
I love this guy, body language is fascinating.
Hey, I just bought this guy's book!
Eyyyyyyy Madison Wisconsin wooooo!
That seriously took my by surprise lol, did not expect to hear my hometown
Obviously i prefer light to obscurity.
I'd rather take a longer road that i can see at night rather than a dark alley.
Also, I noticed the DSM-V on your shelf. Is there any correlation between your insights and experience into body language reading and the determination of mental health issues? Thank you in advance.
This guys needs his own TH-cam channel!
Thank you for this valuable lesson.
Doesn't take body language to get a vibe, but very helpful for watching leaders on television. Thanks
I freeze when my crush sees me and moves on without acknowledging I was ever there
no no, you gotta run after them
This is mind blowing info. I like this guy.
Could the tucking in of thumbs have something to do with the face that when chimps attack humans, they go for the face and the fingers/hands?
It might be how we used to fight amongst ourselves or at least how our common ancestors did?
These videos are so helpful for those of us that use it in nefariously
Endlessly fascinating topic
I’m not sure, when I’m low on gas I just go to the nearest gas station
The thumb tucking is proof that ninja running is the most optimal form
As a nurse, I spend a semester on these reflexes
this is my favorite video with this guy
This was incredibly fascinating!
This guy is so brilliant!
the way i just wrote my college essay about this topic
these videos have made me analyse everyone i talk to
Can you imagine trying to play poker with this guy? 🤣
Why not, if not all in. 😁
I’m in Madison, Wi and I had a limbic response when he said it
When a person is calm, composed, and compassionate, they fold their hands, no threat. No need to demonstrate defense
0:54 - Lions and tigers and dogs! Oh, my!
is it weird that I used to always hold my hand in that position? i would just be chilling and then I just feel like my neck is too exposed. now it's with my wrists and the back of my ankles, I feel like I have to protect them. is something wrong with me?
I personally would think they might be self soothing gestures? When you start to feel uneasy you might do it without noticing first c:
Absolutely fascinating! Great content.
8:09 The infamous Komrad Kamala cackle.
Casually tells story of his coworker getting his thumb ripped off. Ok. Cool cool.
Light doesn’t “represent” visual clarity - it IS visual clarity. It’s more information.
I can see how these are so popular, such interesting stuff.
(And I'd been curious about that suprasternal notch bit at the end once I came across this guy, nice)
Tigers in Africa??
@Thot PoliceThen again, probably not. Also: "were", not "was".
@Thot Police ... Whatever.
@Thot Police there weren’t tigers in Africa 2.5 million years ago, better?
Thanks super interesting!
Speaking as someone with a specialized military background and now a Psychotherapist (Psy.D.) EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE RESPONSES CAN AND ARE TRAINED AWAY TO ACHIEVE A SUPERIOR TACTICAL ADVANTAGE‼️
These trading are long, relatively slow to achieve, but one imprinted, become a higher ranked instinctual response then ANY Limbic response. This will make highly trained and specialized soldiers, orders of magnitude more effective than non-trained soldiers.
If we’re putting all our cards on the table, this means breaking someone down systematically and psychologically, over and over, repeating specific training, over an extended period of time.
Now, to acclimate these highly specialized operatives to regular, run of the mill life, they must be just as purposely, re-acclimated to a civilian tone of existence. But make no mistake, they were broken down, and can never go back to their pre-military “normal”‼️
Absolutely fascinating!
Can anyone recall the video that he made discussing leg muscles? Appreciate any response.
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Correction: The limbic system is also called the _paleomammalian brain_ (or _system_ )-not the _mammalian brain,_ of which it is part, along with the _neomammalian brain._
(The neomammalian brain or system is the upper, outer part also called the _neocortex_ or often just _cortex._ It is newer-hence "neo"-and handles higher mental functions.)
Love this content!!
Idk why y'all are nagging THIS guy is an fbi agent! He's a genius! He agreed to collaborate so that ppl will be more aware about certain stuff and that amaaaaazing!
Fun psych fact: Memories can be strong enough to invoke the exact emotions a person felt when the experience originally happened.
I actually remember the emotions I felt more than what actually happened
What I immediately thought of and find interesting is that I have personally (and seen others) froze and stopped moving when crossing the road and it appears a car is about to hit me. Strange to think about how an instinctual survival response can so easily kill you in the modern day.
I wonder if we will ever see an evolution in that regard
Perhaps an instinctual ability to quickly distinguish between a conscious predator and an unfeeling piece of technology, and react accordingly
I love this man!! So fascinating!!
Joe Navarro, a legend
I can't see a Joe's video just once
thank you
“Lions, tigers” . . . and bears, oh my!
Thank you
ALL sensory experience is processed through the limbic system. It is primary to brain response. Rhetoric, the use of symbolic noises, may disguise , mislead, or elaborate, but rest assured, the limbic processing does not hijack, but instead brings together evolved, as well as learned responses. We learn through periods of rest and sleep, to associate novel sensory information to correct whatever was learned in the past - to update our heuristics.
Australopithecus is literally "southern Ape." Take that as you will, even if some did not fully move to Mar-a-lago until close to the end of their life..
Does he have a book?
nice tips
now i can read body language toward patient in hospital...
I cannot let anyone or anything touch around the front of my neck ever since I was little,even now it takes a lot of will power to allow such contact,even the softest ones.