Sentences with phrase «make facial gestures»

A standard library of stimuli to elicit fear activity uses actors to make facial gestures that communicate fearfulness.

In a recent study subjects who made the physical action of smiling — even though it was just from holding a pencil in their mouths without any emotional content — reported feeling happier than those who didn't make this facial gesture under the same conditions.

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The next few days are a real struggle as you attempt to make sense of all the gestures, facial expressions, and how the local people respond to you as you seek help.

Infants make a sound or look at an object — that's the serve — and parents return the serve by sharing the child's attention and responding to his babbles and cries with gestures, facial expressions, and speech: «Yes, that's your doggy!»

But if your child's obsession with a certain color is accompanied by behavior that includes avoiding eye contact, not sharing interests or achievements with you or others, or difficulty understanding facial expressions, body postures, and gestures, these might be signs of autism and early intervention can make a difference.

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy principally involves PLACE - creating a Playful, Loving, Accepting, Curious, and Empathic environment in which the therapist and parent attune to the child's «subjective experiences» (feelings, and thoughts) and help the child make sense of them by reflecting back and validating those experiences to the child by means of eye contact, facial expressions, gestures and movements, tone of voice, timing and touch.

An infant makes a sound or looks at an object — that's the serve — and her parents return the serve by responding to her babbles and cries with gestures, facial expressions, and speech.

Researchers know that two - hour - old infants make their first attempts to communicate by intensively studying Mom or Dad's facial expressions and gestures, and listening to their tone of voice.

In a facial gesture that [he made] when I said it was a done deal with the real estate folks, my feeling was he acknowledged what I was saying.»

Toward this end, in the 1980s, Rosenthal started studying covert communication: the nonverbal language of vocal tone, facial expressions, posture and gestures that make up the bulk of human expression.

First of all the framing which is usually an integral part of the structure — as in a proscenium arch; secondly the faces look out at you — their frontal position makes them seem to be declaiming and finally, they all seem to be characters, largely because of all the gestures you use to build up the facial structure.

After prosecutors complained that Blagojevich had made gestures and comments in response to testimony by his former chief of staff, Judge Zabel directed Blago to refrain from «all arm waving, facial gestures and side comments.»

According to Smart's ruling, Dhir and Keohane spent nearly an hour in chambers that morning during which they made serious allegations against one another, numerous interjections and objections, statements that questioning was discourteous, and complaints about inappropriate facial gestures.

These conscious and unconscious cues include making and maintaining eye contact, mirroring and mimicking the other video caller's movements and gestures, and the facial expressions that accompany our words and reactions.

The 8MP selfie camera is enriched with «facial enhancement technology», a pressure - sensitive Halo button supports various gestures previously made possible by physical mBack home keys, and the whole thing is both robust and elegant, thanks to a «sandblasted» metal build, 2.5 D glass, and nano - injection antenna design.

We're looking at technologies now like voice and gesture recognition, and facial tracking that may make the keyboard redundant.»

With specific tracking not only of limbs, but fingers, hand gestures, even facial movements and expressions, Kinect Sports Rivals makes competition more meaningful.

active listening: be attentive, listen carefully, make eye contact, be aware of body language, facial expressions, gestures and tone of voice to get an idea of how they are feeling and avoid misunderstandings

Even when strident opinions aren't said aloud, there are many ways for co-workers to make their thoughts known through social media posts or even facial expressions and gestures.