Hands: so useful, yet so problematic! What to do with them? Shove them into pockets? Use them to clutch the sides of the lectern with last-lifeboat-off-the-Titanic fervor? Flick away invisible flies?

Everyone “talks” with their hands at least sometimes. Some people’s hand-talking or gesturing matches their message well. Other people have a tendency to make overly large gestures that can be ...

How you present yourself says a lot about you, and much of that comes down to what you do with your hands. That’s especially true when speaking in front of an audience. According to a recent study, ...

While you might not think about it, our body language and nonverbal cues often say more about us in social interactions than our words do, at least according to Dr. Travis Bradberry, the author of ...

Hand movements are often treated as a nervous tic to be suppressed, but a growing body of research suggests they are one of the most powerful tools a speaker has. Across lab experiments, large-scale ...

There’s about a million different gestures, phrases, actions, and emotions that speak to our character — whether we’re in the middle of a conversation or indulging in alone time by ourselves. How we ...