“TIE AN ITALIAN’S hands behind his back,” runs an old joke, “and he’ll be speechless.” The gag rests on a national stereotype: Italians are voluble and emotional, and all that arm-waggling supposedly ...

Having students make hand gestures connected to what they’re learning can help them remember new information, including vocabulary. But there are some important caveats. When I was researching a book ...

When people use hand gestures that visually represent what they’re saying, listeners see them as more clear, competent and persuasive. That’s the key finding from my new research published in the ...

Gestures in the workplace convey a significant amount of information without an individual ever opening her mouth. Workers react to others' gestures as read in the workplace. Eye contact, facial ...

Chimps and other apes have been observed making more than 80 meaningful gestures. Three theories have tried to explain why. By Carl Zimmer In the 1960s, Jane Goodall started spending weeks at a time ...