True Green Or Astroturf Environmentalist - Can Body Language Tell?
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 17:50
in Psychology & Sociology
No one says, "I am in favor of pollution" but how would anyone know who really cares? Body language, claims a new book. Professor Geoff Beattie, from The University of Manchester, says mismatches between gestures and speech will allow us to identify ‘green fakers’, regardless of what they actually say. His research for the Sustainable Consumption Institute used video recordings to examine the gestures and speech of people with differing views on the environment while they talked about carbon labeling, global warming and their lifestyles. By examining their gestures, each speaker showed a connection between what they were saying and what they actually believed, Beattie says. read more