Dating : An FBI Body Language Trick To Build Trust

On the other hand, people who are telling the truth, tend to use open palm gestures. This is a sign of authenticity, honesty, and vulnerability.

According to History.com, the origin of the handshake is to show strangers that your hands were free from weapons.

Showing empty or open palms can also symbolize vulnerability.

Joe Navarro, retired FBI agent and author of the body language bestseller, What Every Body is Saying, reveals that interrogators use open palm gestures to build trust. They also watch the person being interrogated for hand gestures of honesty or deceit.

I followed a similar approach when training groups.

Using open palm gestures and other nonverbal signals of trust, I nurtured an environment of openness and vulnerability that fostered behavioral change.

It doesn’t stop there.

Honorary Professor of Psychology at ULIM International University, Allen Pease, is known all over the world as “Mr. Body Language”.

In a TEDx speech, he conducted several “experiments” with the audience to drill home his belief that open palm gestures send trust signals to other people’s brains that make them feel less threatened and more likely to do what you want.

Therefore, open palm gestures show promise in fostering trust, intimacy, vulnerability, and influence.