Myth: Our Body Language Conveys 55% of the Message This is a distortion of some research conducted by Albert Mehrabian in 1967

I overheard a video on interview techniques my wife was watching recently where the instructor pointed out that:

Our body language conveys 55% of the message etc.

I would be surprised if you have not heard it said, often in a training course or at a conference.

The statement is so evidently not true, and I am amazed that people still proliferate the myth.

It is a total distortion of some research conducted by Albert Mehrabian in 1967.

Littlewood’s Law

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