Category: Salvador Minuchin. mimesis
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Body Language Between Putin and Trump
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Did you notice Vladimir Putin imitating Donald Trump’s posture? Mirroring someone’s movements, gestures, rate of speech, phrases, pauses, or their language is a way of trying to build rapport and trust. Realtors and sales associates call it ‘prospecting,’ Counselors and speakers and interviewees see it as ‘joining.’ This is the Art of Persuasion.