Body Language of crowned prince of Saudi Arabia in India & Pakistan

Saudi Arabia crowned prince Mohammad bin Salman has recently paid visits to Pakistan and India( He initially visited Pakistan and then India). Once he paid a visit to both the countries , there was huge uproar in India media that the crowned prince didn't mention Pulwama at all in his speech and how he praised Pakistan's leader Mr. Imran Khan.

So, let us analyse the Body Language of the crowned prince in both the videos, the one he delivered with Pakistan's Prime Minister Mr. Imran Khan and the one with our Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi.

Let us look at some preconditions before we go into the video.

1. Welcoming the crowned prince

Mr. Imran Khan wanted to give a more personal touch offering the crowned prince where he is driving. You can see the happiness on the crowned prince face.

 

Our prime minister is seen hugging the crowned prince and yet again Bin Salman is seen with a happy face.


2.  Pakistan hosts a dinner for the crowned prince.

If you go through a video this was a very light and casual conversation here. This is the event where he praised Mr. Imran Khan. This is a very general etiquette that whenever you are being invited for the dinner, you need to thank the host. At the dinner they exchanged nice words with each other and a lot of smiles could be seen.

Probably due to the tension because of the Pulwama attack , we could not host such dinner at this level, which was completely alright.

3. The language used in joint meet.

In Pakistan, both of the leaders used English to communicate with the press and with each other.

In India, both of the leaders used their mother tongue and used the interpreter to understand each other's language.

Now, let us analyse the videos.

1. Eye Contact

Eye contact plays a very important role in order to find the likeability. So simple equation is, if there is more eye contact there is more likeability. When Saudi Arabia crowned prince speaks he likes to make an eye contact. When he was speaking in Pakistan he did try to make an eye contact with Mr. Imran Khan, but he didn't receive the same. It doesn't mean lack of respect, it means, Mr. Imran Khan wants to listen more than he wants to see.

In our case, he did receive all the eye contacts from our Prime Minister, Mr.Modi.

However,when calculated he looked 1.5 times more towards Mr. Imran Khan.

2. Body Movement

If you look at both the videos, you would find crowned prince Bin Salman had more movements when he was with Mr. Imran Khan. And there was a significant difference in Body movements when he was with Mr. Modi.

More body movements sometimes signifies casual/friendly behaviour and sometimes being under stress. In this case, he was friendly towards Mr. Imran Khan. No or less body movements in India doesn't mean he doesn't like India, but he appeared more poised and under control in the joint press meet. It was strictly professional.

3. Hand gestures

There were no hand gestures seen during the joint press meet in India, but there were few hand gestures by crowned prince  seen in Pakistan. When he mentioned that two big economies will be in the neighbourhood India and China. Just after that he uses a subjugating hand gesture implying the good leadership of Mr. Imran Khan.

5. Body Pointing

When someone talks and you are on the same page as them, you would point your Body towards them.

So, you need to compare the body point also.

And yes, like every other blog, I'm going to leave it at your discretion, what do you think about the crowned prince Mohammad Bin Salman's Body Language in India and Pakistan.

Note: Be aware of your own assumptions. 

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The "Shoulder Squeeze" of US Vice-President Joe Biden

Another news was made by the US Vice-President Joe Biden recently. All social networking sites were flooded with various opinions on this behaviour. Let us analyse the incident and know the truth.

1. Entering into the personal space

Here in this picture, we can see Joe offering a handshake. The thing to notice here is, Joe is entering into the personal space of the defence secretary. When someone enters our personal space, we feel a little bit awkward. Joe doesn't do it knowingly, he always gets real close to people, enters into the personal space thinking that he is friendly.

2. The Double Hander

And to tackle the awkwardness  the US defence secretary gives him a double hander. This kind of handshake is used to be perceived as a warm personality, or to avoid to be perceived as a subjugated personality.

3. More friendly

Joe now breaks eye contact with the defence secretary and points the total body towards the defence secretary's wife to greet her. Here we can see an active example of interest. Our body points where our interest lies, but as soon as he greets her, he quickly turns his body towards the dais. Joe wants to be very accommodating, so that no one feels "left alone". 

4. Concerned about image

On the other side, the defence secretary kisses his wife. but if you look at his hands,it's like he is pushing her away, glanced quickly towards Joe, as if the "kiss" was over.

He also gets his wife's caress on the right side,which he doesn't acknowledge. 

5. The shoulder squeeze

When Joe calls the defence secretary's wife,it looks like he is being friendly but as soon as he gets his hands completely on defence secretary's wife's shoulders, he can be seen with a chin up gesture which symbolizes pride. 

6. Whisper in the ear

We now see Joe whispering something in the ear of the Defence secretary's wife but whatever he said doesn't interest her as we see a delay in her response. Whenever there is a delay in response or there is very quick response,it rings a bell.

7. Authority

Of course, the defence secretary didn't like the over friendly gesture of the US Vice President. We know it, when he says thanks to his "perfect wife", he puts his hands on his wife's shoulder as if claiming her. This is an authoritative gesture symbolizing the person is more concerned about his people/things etc. 

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How supportive is Swiss Government on Black Money?

From months we have been hearing about the return of black money to India. Some claimed they have the list, some even circulated a false list of India account holders in Swiss Banks. But the truth is still under veil, if there are any chances of getting those money back.

Yesterday, i.e 3rd Dec 2014, We got the statement by Swiss Ambassador Linus Von Castelmur that India must show the proof of fraud. He also said,"  Yes, it (re-routing of black money) happened. But Swiss banks and others have been heavily fined recently, so the remedial process is in place.” “But you cannot say, give us all Indian account holders, this is not possible. You can’t just go on a fishing expedition. But if you have evidence, we will go ahead,” . ( Quoting from The Hindu )

Let us now analyse the statements and interview by applying Body Language techniques.

1. Baselining
The baselining is the procedure of measuring how someone acts when they are under
normal, non-threatening conditions through various body language cues. It is how someone looks when they are telling the truth.
This is the most important step . One step goes wrong and the whole detection is null and void.
After baselining we noticed Mr. Linus is a hand talker, meaning he uses his hands to elaborate when he is talking, which is an illustrator here.

He is also a leaner, when he talks while standing, he leans to his right or left from time to time. And his shoulders are relaxed. He gives a good pause of one sec while speaking, breathing pattern is normal .

Now let's see, what the Body Language tells us.

2. Controlled Hands

If you can see closely here and in the video as well, you can feel, as if he has controlled his hands. Hands are behind the back and are controlled. Do not confuse it with the standing army posture,which is not the case here, as the chest is not erected.

3. Stiff Body

The shoulders are very stiff here compared to what his general posture is,symbolizing there is something being talked here, which is making him cautious.

4. Response latency

Response latency is the duration between question is asked and the answer is given . In simple words, it is the time we take to answer a question. A good response latency is about 2 seconds i.e. if we wait for around 2 seconds after the question is being asked , that is considered truthful.

Mr. Linus however responds to the first question in less than one second,which is a matter of concern here.

5. Gestural slip

Usually,when we say positive sentences we nod our head top to bottom symbolizing "yes" and when we say negative sentences like I don't like it, I don't want that, I can't go there etc , we shake our head from right to left implying "No". If the statement is positive and the head shake is "NO" or the sentence is negative and Head nod is a "YES" , you should know that there is something going on. This is called a gestural slip.

When asked by the reporter if Switzerland has prepared any list of Indian account holders, Mr. Linus says Switzerland is working on case to case basis with Indian authorities. And during the full statement he is shaking his head "NO" symbolizing he does not agree with his own words.

6. Generalisation

Another concern here is the generalization. A truthful person generally doesn't use generalisation because he/she has nothing to hide, whereas a person who is lying will take the help of generalisations to avoid a flat lie. For example, if you ask someone did you ever cheat on your partner and you get answers like Cheating is sin or Who doesn't or Everyone is a cheater etc. You know there is something more.

Again the same statement When asked by the reporter if Switzerlnd has prepared any list of Indian account holders, Mr. Linus says Switzerland is working on case to case basis with Indian authorities.  We can see a clear generalization here, meaning, there is something which is being hidden from us or is still unknown.

7. Hand gestures return

This picture is from The Hindu from an exclusive interview with Mr.Linus where he is saying "The Swiss government will continue to withhold information on Swiss bank account holders, unless the Indian government shows “independent investigations of fraud” in each case,".
Look at the picture here, he is seen using the hands again while talking,suggesting his confidence in his words. Now that's the truth he is saying. 

In case you want to see the video, click here.

Well, we will see with time, how it goes. Till then, keep looking. 

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PM Modi's Body Language in G20

This G20 saw many things. Many topics were discussed ,some were very serious ,some were not . Our PM, Mr. Narendra Modi unveiled the Gandhi statue there and also met other Indians . Let us analyse the body language of our PM in G 20.

1. The Handshake

Researchers say, a good handshake is worth 3 hours long face to face conversation. So, if you want to give a good impression , have a good handshake. Handshake was given less importance until recently. Now, it is given a lot of weight,even the position of handshake also matters. There are 9 types of handshake,we will not go into detail of the types.

Let us look at the below picture.

 In this picture , we can see what a dominating handshake looks like. The person who approaches with a palm down will automatically gain the upper hand. A person having the upper hand feels powerful.

We generally see, PM Modi giving a subjugating handshake, (which is done by person in white shirt in the above picture )but here we saw him with dominating handshake for few country leaders.

With Canadian President Stephen Harper

With French President Francois Hollande

With Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

With German Chancellor Angela Merkel 

With US President Barack Obama 

This kind of handshake shows, PM Modi is very confident and wants to give a signal to other countries that they should not take India lightly. India is to grow very fast and steady. It seems the signal was well perceived. 

2. The trick 

Brasilian President Dilma Rouseff ,however, gave our PM a double hander( kind of handshake ,where both the hands are used) which is still polite. She knows how to tackle a dominating handshake. 

With Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff

Look at how the Brazilian President has clenched PM Modi's hand, implying she is equally powerful. 

3. Open Posture

This time we saw another change in PM Modi's body language which is increased use of Illustrators and open postures. 

Talking with the hands is the sign of honesty. It's like, our PM is saying " I have nothing to hide". The smile is also genuine as the eyes are contracted and cheek bone area is lifted,meaning, he is very much into the conversation with Putin.

4. Guarded 

Our PM knows when to speak and what to speak.  Look at the picture now. 

Presence of both US and Russian President is making him a bit uncomfortable as he is playing with his fingers suggesting he is very cautious about the statements he is giving or about to give. When we are uncomfortable or feel vulnerable we close ourselves down. This is already in PM's mind ,that he should not close himself up but he has guarded himself with his arms in front of his chest. 

5. Good move

Australian Prime Minister is very particular about his *image ( * I will be posting a whole blog dedicated to him and his image ) . He made sure he gave dominating handshake to every leader that comes on stage while greeting. This usually happens when the person positions himself in the right, then automatically the next person coming from left is going to get a dominating handshake and the other person has no other option but to subjugate. 

Australian Prime Minister ,Tony Abbott

As per the plan , the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott offered the handshake, in the picture it looks like a normal handshake, but if you look carefully, you can see the position of President Tony's hand . He is trying to lift his arm, which is like putting effort to twist our PM's hand, to make it a subjugate handshake. Then he quickly comes forward and hugs our PM, put his hand on PM's back. And here's the twist, our PM pats him twice. The pat was so strong that it could be heard clearly in the video. When a handshake ends up in hug, and moreover, a pat in the back , it means, it's not equal. One who pats is the superior . Patting in the back is like treating the other person as a child like, good job son/girl. 

Therefore, all efforts of Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott went Null & Void ,when the pat on the back happened. 

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