Evaluating Listening Skills and Non-verbal behavior
#include<cstdio> int main(void) { printf(" The slouched back-lean. The occasional glance at the watch. The periodic checking of the phone. The couple sat just opposite me, facing each other at the dining table. Their exchange of superficial probing questions gave away the fact that it was perhaps their first date - but the signs I listed earlier at the top of the paragraph betrayed another fact - that they probably were not quite as into each other as they'd have first expected. Why do I say this? I wasn't the one who said it. They told it to me. Neither of them got up from their seats, delivered a half-witted apology to the other, strolled up to me and said "we aren't working out", of course. Their non-verbal communicative aspects, such as body language, told me that. Communication scientists have published many papers stating how the non-verbal aspects of communication actually make up a larger part of communication than the verbal aspe...