<img src="https://www.bakadesuyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/how-to-read-people.jpg"> Wall Street Journal We'd all like to learn how to read people like Sherlock Holmes. And research shows understanding things like body language is even more powerful than you might think. MIT found that the outcome of negotiations could be predicted by body language alone 87% of the time. From <a href="https://amzn.to/28U3vR0">The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism </a>:

A class ring. T-shirts with slogans. Tattoos. Pay attention to them because they're usually accurate signs. Here's <a href="https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/12/how-to-read-people/">Sam </a>: Now this is all pretty personal. So what about if you're trying to read someone in a professional context? Want to know if someone is good at their job? Then watch them do it for thirty seconds - <a href="https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2011/06/can-you-tell-if-someone-is-good-at-their-job/">or even just six seconds </a>. Your guess about their competence is more likely to be right than wrong: Want to know if someone's smart? <a href="https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/02/can-you-tell-how-smart-someone-is-just-by-loo/">Research </a>says this is hard to tell from mere appearance when evaluating adults. But there's a trick that can help. Are they funny? Because <a href="https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2011/03/why-do-women-find-funny-men-attractive/">funny people are smart </a>:

And there's one other thing to listen for while they're yakking. The word "I" can be very telling... <a href="https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2011/08/what-does-your-use-of-the-word-i-say-about-yo/">Powerful people don't say it much </a>. Less powerful people say it the most: (To learn what Harvard research says will make you happier and more successful, click <a href="https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/09/be-more-successful/">here </a>.) Okay, so you know when to trust your gut. Now there are a gazillion studies on behavior, so let's focus on reading people to get answers to the questions we all want to know, like... Of course, people trying to deceive or manipulate you are going to fake signals that they are trustworthy.

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