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Friday, June 12, 2015

What is Wrong With The Sitting Posture Of Prof Osinbajo Alongside President Buhari And Other Visiting African Presidents?


According to Forbes: Body language can mean a lot but...

The biggest misconception perpetrated by many so-called experts is that specific gestures – of your hands, say – have specific meanings.  Rather, gestures are ambiguous.  They can mean many things.  

If I cross my arms, I may be signaling my defensiveness, but I may also be cold, or simply tired and propping myself up with my arms – or just getting comfortable.  And I could be signaling all those things at once.  It’s possible to be simultaneously cold, tired, defensive, and desirous of comfort.


The misunderstanding comes from two sources.  First, the pressure on experts to sound definitive and give instant analyses for TV in an impatient world more interested in sound bites than truth.  Second, the history of the study of body language.  It began with what those of us in the field call “emblems”; those rare gestures that do have specific meanings, like the middle finger, the peace sign, the OK gesture, and so on.  As a result, it was natural to look at all the rest of gesturing with a bias toward specific meanings.  But the number of emblems in all cultures is quite small, and after that gestures don’t reliably signal specific meaning.

That Prof Osinbajo is sitting so far from President Buhari and other visiting African presidents? Does not mean anything, more so, He's a Vice President and not the president. Taking a very close look at the picture, you will notice that, that is the sitting arrangement, So where is he suppose to be sited?

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