Ted Talks: You Are Contagious by Vanessa Van Edwards. From the Ted Talk video that I was watching, humans are contagious and we expressed it emotionally and physically through our hand gestures. There are three ways how humans can be contagious. Firstly, nonverbally through the facial expression which expressed the emotions of a person either positive or negative expression. Secondly is verbally contagious where the questions we asked people really affects other people’s emotions. Lastly, emotionally contagious which the emotions we expressed such as excitement, nervous or sad will directly or indirectly affects the people around you. From my point of view, first impressions and body languages are important and one needs to master this in preparing for a bigger event such as job interviews. What we presume is not always the likeable of another person. I agreed that what we think, speak and even feel can become contagious and that is why people always said to surround yourself with positive people because it might bring positivity into your own self. Emotions like anger, sad and stress should not be expressed too profoundly as the connections we had with people might ended up in a messed up situations. There are few ways to overcome the nervousness and anxiety at the same time. First and foremost the essential thing is to think anything that brings you happiness and laughter. Singing or remembering a situation in a movie might be the option. This can cleared up the messiness in the head and make you calm at least a little. Second, just talk to yourself in a two way conversation, with yourself. This may give a person the ideas and eventually rearranged what we are going to talk or do in an orderly manner. Third, breathing exercises over a calm music is a go when you have stage fright. You can also imagined that you are talking to yourself only when performing without feeling emotionally judged by the audience’s expression. It’s a bonus if the audience can give a cheerful vibes whilst you are performing. Four, practice makes perfect. No one can make it through perfectly without stuttering and shaking if less practice were made. Practicing helps to relieve those fears and stutters, familiarize with the contents and makes the performer more confident in delivering to the audience. Always keep in mind that we are never a loser. Letting yourself out from the comfort zone is definitely a wiser move, thus considered yourself as a winner. In conclusion, always be the person you wanted to be and do not let anybody gets you down. If we faced a judgmental situations, think of a good things life has to offer. Believe in yourself more than other could believe in you and hoping one day, we can become a good example to others.
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Assalamualaikum, Mdm Yati and all my dear Helixians. Here’s what I learnt from the video. Miss Vanessa shared her idea that we are contagious as in people can pass on their emotions or intentions to others through gestures, words and actions. Human has ingrained instinct that is capable of translating others’ intentions just by the voice tones, hand gestures, choice of words and face expressions. When interacting with people, we consciously or unconsciously conveyed our emotions at the moment and these emotions are infecting others to think of things that are associated with them. For example, a person who is happy will speak jovially which the listeners are incline to feel the same way (empathy) and speak more freely in the conversation. Meanwhile, our brain will constantly try to read others’ intentions through their body language and face expression which will be mirrored by us. For instance, a tense body movement with lowered eyebrows and pressing lips together will be registered as a defensive posture in our brain and we will instantly prepare for a hostile situation. So, by learning to control our actions and words, we can control what kind of emotions we are spreading to people around us.
‘You are contagious’ is a video that taught me about presentation skills in which the speaker shares about how one talk or presentation can be memorable and remarkable for others. Besides hand gesture, the things that caught my attention are on the way the speaker plays with her voice intonation and facial expression. Besides, it is interesting to see the facts that our life could affect others so does our happiness and sadness. When things are rough but we still fake it in order not to make other worries actually it is the emotion and vibes that will show the true feelings of ours. Thus, in hard time, even though things seem hard but do not be easily affected by it because life got so many things to be cherished. Furthermore, remember that not only the things that we show verbally but also none verbally can affect others thus be confident and careful in things that we do. -nurul atiqah mohd latif (1518276) -
Assalamualaikum and have a great day everyone. Vanessa' talk had covered interesting things on how our behavior can effect others perception about us, understanding emotion and mood just from vocal sound and face expression. She also emphasized that "we are in control of how we feel and what we want to spread". Commenting on her mean of presentation; (1) she had good eye contact with audience, while having 2-ways interaction (2) has vocal variety and calm, not monotone and clear speech (3) her contents are well-managed, with aid of helpful slides with images and audio (4) body and hand gesture are varied and fit with her content. P.S: her smile is beautiful :D
Assalammualaikum to Madam Yanti and to all readers especially my ‘English for Occupational Purpose (EOP)’ classmate.I am really excited after watching the presentation by Vanessa Van Edwards at the TEDxLondon.Im really impressed by the way Vanessa spread her idea and also her feelings through her bombastic presentation.Rather than just enjoying the presentation,I had gained lots of points that I realized but I did not practise it which is my communication skills which specifically refers to presentation skills.After the first presentation that we had done in our first EOP class and after watching the ‘You Are Contagious’ presentation,I had learned so many importants points that I need to stressed to do better presentation in front of class.The first thing to take into account when doing presentation or communication is hand gesture.To make people understand and more excited to our presentation,we need to practice many suitable hand gestures because aside from our words,people can just undertand what we spoke just through hand gestures.Other than that,non verbal expression is also one critical point in presentation.For example,during presentation,when we honestly cried when telling sad story to audience,the sad feelings and emotion will be felt by the audience making them feeling sad and even can cry.Next,we move to verbal communication skills which focuses on volume and intonation of our voice during presentation.Sometime during presentation,one statement can bring 2 different effects to the audience.For example,the word ‘really’ at high note showed surprise but at low note will show disbelief.Finally,content.The way we chose words and statements to deliver idea and points really matters when doing presentation.To make sure audience like and excited to our presentation,we can not use normal statements and words that would not bring emotion to the audience.We need to spread the positive emotion when presenting such as rather than to say ‘Any question?’ when finishing presentation,we can go for ‘Thank you for your attention. Now I am happy to answer any questions you might have’ which will cause the audience more attracted to ask question.In conclusion,these all components such as verbal,non-verbal,content,voice and hand gestures are really important points that need to be practiced by presenter such as myself for better resuly and response by the audience.Thank you.
Assalamualaikum Madam. I had watched the video and I found that it was very interesting and inspiring. Vanessa explained on the importance of hand gestures, body languages, vocal variety and facial expressions in showing our contents and capturing people's attention. One of new knowledge I got from this video was about microexpression which is an involuntary expression of emotions. We are contagious and people able to feel our emotions based on our facial expression. For example, if we are expressing happiness, people able to tell that we are in excitement. Beside that, I also learnt on how we want to infect people with our emotions. What we need to do is set our emotions. If we want to trigger excitement, then start the conversation with worthy questions, happy tone, use hand gestures and make authentic smile. It showed that we are confidence and it is contagious. People can feel our confidence and change their way in perceiving our confidence. Last but not least, aside from confidence, I learnt that we need to set up our mind, our emotions to become more positive so that we are able to do things and live in positive ways. What I can conclude here is we can change people's perspective on us by changing our behavior towards become more positive person, more confidence while communicate with other people, then u will become more likeable person by others.
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Title of assignment: FEEDBACK FROM “YOU ARE CONTAGIOUS” BY VANESSA VAN EDWARDS The video entitled “You Are Contagious” by Vanessa Van Edwards talked about how people are contagious and affect others perception towards us. The first five minutes of the video told us that hand gestures are very important in affecting people around us. This can be proved by the study that found the popular ted-talk videos have more hand gestures compared to the unpopular ted-talk videos. Vanessa discussed that there are three ways on how people can be contagious; non-verbally, verbally and emotionally. Micro-expression has been mentioned in this video which can affect people nonverbally. The most common micro-expression is our facial expression. It is because people can see our emotions through our facial expression. The video also mentioned about how real smile can produce happiness instead of fake smile which produced nothing. People can tell by our facial expression whether we like them or not. Other micro-expression is through our voice. Vanessa also played two same voice with different emotions. To conclude, micro-expression is all about our emotions reflected by our facial and voice expression. Next, people are infectious verbally. Vanessa mentioned that we can infect people through conversation, by choosing our words wisely. It is because the words we speak will affect and catch people attention together with emotions. The speaker also suggested to change our words during conversation to make other people happy and create their excitement by triggering their dopamine. One of the most interesting sentence that Vanessa changed is from “How are you?” to “Anything good happen today?” which could make people happy and excited to talk to you. Lastly, we are contagious in terms of emotionally. The speaker mentioned that our mind-set is important by saying that anxiety and excitement are similar emotions but different in terms of the mind-set itself. In conclusion, Vanessa said that we can control ourselves on how to infect people around us. We can manage ourselves on how to spread our feelings towards people through nonverbal, verbal and emotion.
In this video, the presenter, Vanessa stated that we are contagious. She addressed three ways on how an individual can affect other human beings. According to her, we infect people nonverbally, verbally and emotionally. People are most likely remembering the way we affect their emotion throughout micro-facial expression, body languages, tones of the voice, and words that we used to express ourselves in the conversations. For instance, she set up several tests to analyze the hypothesis on people are easily affected by others based on three methods she listed. The analysis on the most popular Ted-talk videos against the least favored videos and found out that the more hand gestures applied to highlight the content, the more it catches the viewers depicted the nonverbal effect. Whilst, the test on differences of sweat smell regarding certain condition portrayed that emotion does infect others and the test of different micro-expression be it subtle gestures or volume of the voice also affecting other either non verbally or verbally. She concluded four steps to effectively spread the right and bright infection to other are ask for dopamine-worthy conversation starters, smile genuinely, use more hand gestures, speak when you are not having ‘grueling grumpy moment’ and end the conversation with excitement.
There are several important points related with our interaction with other people that are worth to be learnt from the speech video of ‘You Are Contagious’, by Vanessa Van Edwards on YouTube that I have watched. The main lesson learnt is we can infect other people verbally, non-verbally and emotionally.
First of all, we can be contagious verbally. In other words, the way we speak can affect others. In the video, Vanessa highly recommended to speak positive words to the person or people that we were having interaction with. For example, do ask simple questions related with hobby or their current interest. These kind of questions will unintentionally bring out the excitement, thus they will become genuinely pleasant to answer our questions or interacting with you. You will also become more likeable as well as memorable to the person as she or he can be considered as having a great time with you. The person might as well tell to his or her circle of friends about you, thus showing how contagious you are to other people.
Next, we can also infect other people through non-verbal aspect. This aspect involves our own expressions and body language. Vanessa stated that the first thing that we saw when we interacted with someone was hand gestures. I have to disagree with Vanessa as in my opinion, I always look at the face or expressions of the person I am having interaction with. Even though the person’s hand gestures are perfect and synchronized with the content of their speech or talk but presenting or interacting to the audience with a stern or annoyed face, people will feel uncomfortable with you and not be focusing on your content anymore. Similar thing goes with when the person is presenting without having any hand gesture, but with a composed voice along with clear and remarkable way of speaking, the person can still attract the audience.
These first two aspects in making our self to be well-known to the people we are having interaction with, is actually controlled by our own emotions. Indeed, our emotions play a vital role especially when we are interacting with others. I do agree with Vanessa as she stated that our emotions can really affect other people. She also asserted that, besides our emotion caught on our face, our face also caught our emotion. In other words, our emotions can be portrayed on our face, known as expressions and body language. As I mention before, people are actually observing our expression and body language while we are having interaction with them. I have realized that if we are genuinely feeling happy and show that we are pleased while communicating with others, we can also feel that they also cannot help but feeling excited and content being with us as well. If we observe further, we can even feel that our surrounding are having the similar vibe as we have at that moment.
There is a few quotes to be mentioned which positively indicating that what we feel also can affect others. First, there is a saying from Buddhist teaching stated, “If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path”. Moreover, Harvey Mackay, a well-known author and columnist also said that he felt good and made his surrounding even better, when he was having positive thinking.
What have I learned? By 1516574. I think the central idea that Vanessa was trying to convey was about the influence of non-verbal communication and its importance to be harnessed as a skill in order to deliver an impactful speech. Among the non-verbal skills that were pointed out by Vanessa are hand gestures, facial expressions and tones and sounds. Truthfully before listening to the talk, I have always thought that giving out body languages were disadvantageous; for examples I used to think that hand gestures in a speech was just accessories that sometimes get in the way in delivering a meaningful speech and that facial expressions are a weakness as they are like a window to our soul and make it obvious when we are feeling nervous or experiencing other negative feelings. However, through Vanessa’s talk, my perception changed. I was able to understand the contribution of these gestures towards our communication. The right gestures can make people like and trust us and the way to do that is by polishing our non-verbal skills. By saying that she is a recovering awkward person, Vanessa also gave me confidence that these skills are possible to be developed and not sets of priori intelligence that are only possessed by charismatic individuals.
From this video, it makes me realized that our behavior while having conversation is very affections where it could affect the emotions of a person whom we talked to, especially when we apply hand gestures. This explained that body language also can affect us emotionally. Vanessa revealed that mankind is contagious and how mankind infects other people with the right one either verbally, non-verbally and emotions. Firstly, a nonverbal contagious is a how to catch an emotion of someone and create rational at the same time such as looking into something with face reaction. There is a term called micro-expression. It is a universal facial expression such as fear, excited expression. However, mankind always practice worst micro-expression without realizing it. For instance, by asking how are you, and what do you do? Which leads to no pleasure effect and excitement at all. Facial expression is importance as it affects our emotion expression. Simply said, emotion and facial expression comes together to make it real and livable. Secondly, contagious can be expressed verbally by having an exciting conversation starter which will make our body release more dopamine. This is because our brain always looked for hits and no misses. In details we should ask question that will create excitement so that they can bring the exciting memory from the past to the current situation we’re in where it eventually makes it more memorable. Lastly, we are contagious emotionally. Anxiety and excitement are both similar emotion and differentiated by mindset. Always be contagious by applying these 3 ways.
Vanessa Van Edwards, A speaker from ted talks with topic which en-titled "Your are contagious" At first, she gave a brief explanationn for what and why certain ted talkers video goes virals and others don't. She also had gathered teams in order to do the social experiments. She preps several mock experiments in the society to see the contagious effects. All of this is actually to learn the relationship between emotial feedback and rational thought. As a results,she claimed that every actions and expresisons can give a huge influence to others. Not to mentions that the chemical compouds that act as a happy pills is Dopamine which located at our brain.
The one that impress me the most is actually, she works the talks she gave. The ways she delivered her messages to audients is exciting and very informative. How she talks,standings, walks and even her facial expression and hand gestures.
From Vanessa's talks.It is really important to look at our behaviours and expressions during our interaction with others especially the presenter who present their presentations.Also, when we are having a conversation with peoples, we should try to give a good vibe so that the emotional feedback can go in a positive directions and at the same time create a good influence.
To sum ups, all things and key points that vaneesa told, can be beneficial to my study and also increased my communication skills. I'm excited!
(1510246) Hello, my name is Nur Liyana binti Mohd Izan. Contagious is a very powerful word which define as an emotion, feeling or attitude that is likely to spread and affect others. Regarding to the video of Vanessa Van Edwards at TEDxLondon, which entitled “You are contagious” is reflecting the whole message in the video where everyone of us has potential to influence other people, either in positive or negative way. Amazing, right? Imagine when you smiled to stranger while walking by the streets and get a smile back from them, even the little thing like that can actually give us happiness and boost our energy naturally. Plus, I really like it when Vanessa gave suggestion to change the way we ask question since asking questions also can give effect to other people, surprisingly. For example, instead of asking “You’re busy lately?”, we can try by asking in positive way namely “Working anything exciting these days?”. Turns out people will think of stress scenes that they faced when there is ‘busy’ word in the question, and imagine of excite scenes when ‘exciting’ word comes in. That is how powerful of being contagious and that is why we need to bring everything in positive way so that we will live in positive atmosphere! Good day!;)
We are contagious Seeing someone, first thing we see is the hand rather than other part of the body. The act is spontaneous because our brain wants to assess whether the person friend or foe.
The emotion is contagious. This emotion can be transferred to the other person whether it is happy, sad, anger, etc. the way we talking, the intonation can be interpreted as our emotion and this can make our surrounding affected.
the body language is contagious. Static movement less memorable than people that good with body language.
the facial expression is contagious. The fear expression made our brain thinking what he/she is feared of while looking our surrounding. Happy expression leads us to question why he/she is happy to share the happiness.
when starting conversation, we have to avoid the negative thought or the question that lead to it but give the person positive thinking so that we become more memorable. Good writer can even transfer their emotion through writing, but unfortunately, I’m not one of them. Hope you not remember the last line only.
Why are we contagious ? Why are action can affect other personal behaviours ? This is because the concept of three levels of mind is nothing new. Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian psychologist was probably the first to popularize it into mainstream society as we know it today. Even though his theories have subsequently been widely disputed in Psychology circles because they are very hard to scientifically prove, Freud nonetheless created a useful model of the mind, which he separated into 3 tiers or sections which is the conscious mind, the preconscious and the unconscious mind. The preconscious and the unconscious mind is the memories that will absorb all thing around us unintentionally, it will affect our conscious mind, feelings, emotions, imagination, sensations, dream and finally our behaviour. For example, if we live in the environment who go to university we will say it is wrong not to go to university.
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Review on “You are contagious by Vanesa Van Edwards” From my perspective, human are contagious. This is because people tend to do what others do or in other words someone can affect someone physically and emotionally behavioral either positive or negative. According to Vanesa, human are contagious to others through three aspects; nonverbal, verbally and emotional. First, human nonverbally contagious to others. For instance, Vanesa do an experiment where she look up somewhere in air while standing in the street without saying any words, and suddenly peoples around her also look up. So this is prove that people are attract to copy others people behavior unconciously. Second, human verbally contagious to others. A man can spread either positive or vibes to peoples through the way we talk. For example, if we say hello to someone with happy voice, they automatically will get happy while vice versa. Third, human can emotionally contagious others. Anxiety and excitement are similar emotions but different in mindset. It up to us wheter to harness incitement or trigger excitement. We are control in how we feel and what we want to spread.
Assalamualaikum and a very good day everyone! So I’m here to share my thoughts on the video “You are contagious – Vanessa”. The very first thing that I learned from Vanessa is that anyone might have the awkward phase in her or his life but, it does not matter how we started, what matter is how we end. Like Vanessa, she claimed that she used to be an awkward person but not anymore as she takes the effort to understand and take actions to overcome her awkwardness and it was proven when she delivered well during the TED talk. So, I really think that everyone should take efforts to improve own self-confident in order to be more productive. Secondly, seeing her presenting I can actually see that she is implementing what she shared in her speech. She delivered her content with excitement in her voice, exciting hand gestures and also genuine microexpressions. It was apparent that she was content and really want to make the audience feel the same. Other than that, I also learned that to ensure the audience captures the right emotion that the speaker wish to deliver, words of choice should be carefully chosen. The right words will excite the listener and make them want to hear more and the speaker surely will be delighted to explain more. This positive interaction definitely can spread the positive vibes around. Last but not least, everyone has their own phase, the path of discovering own self-confident and making efforts to achieve it is something to be cheered on and cherished. Thank you :)
We can be contagious in three different ways. The first one is by nonverbally whereby our body gestures, facial expressions and even voice can infect people in our surrounding. People tend to catch emotions that they see or hear. Therefore, when we show a happy facial expression, people in our surrounding will catch that happy emotion and respond by being happy too. Addition to that, we will become more likable by people. The second one is by verbally. When asking a question, it should not be those common questions that turns people into auto-pilot mode. The question should be dopamine triggering which means it should be able to create a pleasure feeling on the person being asked. Lastly, we can be contagious by emotionally. A person's mindset plays a major role in the outcome of a task whereby a positive mindset or feeling of excitement leads to a positive outcome or success.
People can gain human attention when he/she do lots of gesture during talking. This statement is proved by a study conducted by Vanessa . She want to figure out why some ted talkers are popular and why some ted talkers are not popular. So, she start to look for difference between popular ted talker and the least popular ted talker. She start to analyze on hand gesture, body movement, vocal variability and others. Based on her analysis,she found out that hand gestures play important role to influence people. She found out that popular ted talker did average 465 hand gesture in 80 minutes while the least popular ted talker did 272 gestures. This showed that, hand gesture is important when people talking or presenting. Besides, through hand gesture, we can convince the audience that we understand well the content of our presentation. Human emotion is contagious in three different ways which are through non verbally, verbally or being controlled. In non verbally, the emotions expressed can be transmitted to next person without the need to talk. Vanessa did experiment by looking at the top where there is actually nothing up there. For a few minutes, some people joined her to watch the top building and try to figure out what actually happen there. This study proved that people can be influenced through our expression and emotions although we did not speak to them. In verbally, we can influence people over conversation. We can influence them to be happy and we also can influence them to be moody. Dopamine is a hormone that can trigger happiness in people. If we ask positive question to them, dopamine will be released to their body triggering happiness to them. If we ask negative things to them, they will automatically become sad. Thus, in order to make people happy, we need to ask something that can trigger their dopamine release such as by asking are they working anything exciting these day, is there any vacations coming up, is anything good happen today and other positive things that can make that person happy. By doing this, it can bring excitement to that people and it can make us memorable since we make them happy. Besides, to trigger dopamine release, we need to use hand gesture, make authentic smile and never talk to people in when we are in stressful condition. thus, by making other people happy, we also will be happy =)
Vanessa talks about one of her studies of how some tedtalks were more popular than others. Her team concluded hand gestures is the most important indicator. This is due to the fact that historically; humans believe that seeing someone’s hands makes them more trustworthy. In the case of tedtalks, better use of hand gestures can indicate one’s understanding of the content they want to present. More use of hand gestures can convince the audience that you know what you are talking about. Another social experiment done by her demonstrates how one’s emotion can be ‘caught’ by another. One of the emotions was happiness. She shows two faces which are genuine happiness and fake happiness. The study done shows some people how they feel when they look at them. What she concluded was that people are more memorable and likeable when they show genuine happiness. There was also a study where they studied two kinds of voices and how people responded to them. The ‘happier’ voice also was more likeable to the participants. Moreover, she studied what kinds of conversation starters that can trigger someone’s excitement. The study looks at combinations of body language, phrases, and variation of volume. Conversation starters that we usually hear such as “how are you” are the lowest ranked conversation starters. This is because these kinds of conversation starters do not trigger dopamine release in humans. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that is released when you are excited. Finally, she studied how emotions are ‘contagious’. They found that people who are genuinely excited can sing more accurately. In conclusion, hand gestures, body language and genuine excitement can make you more likeable and memorable which is very important for someone giving a speech or presentation.
From Vanessa’s video entitled “You are contagious”, I learnt few things regarding self-confident. First, by overcoming our fear, we will become more confident. And the way to overcome fear is by acquiring knowledge. When Vanessa found out that the most popular TED talks having more hand gestures, she believed that she should also practice to use hand gestures when giving speech. She also discovered that the non-verbal action, verbal and emotion can be felt and sensed by the people around us. So, by applying the correct act (non-verbally, verbally and emotionally), we can confidently talk in front of the people. (Nur Atiqah bt Mohd Shahar 1517088)
Based on the video, I learn that we can influence people and attract people through nonverbal, verbal and emotionally ways unconsciously. The speaker mentioned that humans tend to focus more on gestures, be it hand gestures or even body gestures. It happened because our brain is programmed to look for gestures especially on hand gestures to analyze the situation. Besides that, our facial expression can give out signal or meaning of the situation and convey it to the people around us unconsciously. Our voice tones can also affect people in a conversation, for example, if we start a conversation in an excited tone people around us we feel the joy that we are trying to deliver. Furthermore, a great conversation or even talk will make our brain release a chemical called dopamine that usually connected when people are feeling happy or excited. With that chemical, we are able to attract more people to us and at the same time making us more likeable. In addition to that, we can influence people by emotions thru our actions and words unconsciously thus we need to stay positive to be able to give good vibes to the people around us and we need to practice more on our actions.
From the TEDx Talk Video on “You are contagious” given by Vanessa Van Edwards, I have learned that we can affect others whether verbally, non-verbally or emotionally. When we talk, most people will see our hands first in which we can see or predict people intentions by looking their hands. In order to have appropriate hand gestures while giving speech, we need to understand the content well and in order to highlight the main points in our presentation, hand gestures help to deliver and explain the concept to audiences better. The way we deliver things and the way we react changes the way people see us and also may affect their emotion. If we give positive emotion, set a positive mindset and also talk on positive things, it will give use confidence as well as other people around us. The optimism will produce happiness and make us become more memorable. So yes, we are contagious!
Assalamualaikum. Based on the video ‘you are contagious’ by Vanessa Van Edwards, I learn on how each of our behavior from the talk to the action can make people become attracted to us and change the way others perceive our confidence. Vanessa also has revealed on how we could influence or be infectious to others. There are three ways we can be contagious that are nonverbally, verbally and emotionally. We can give nonverbal impact to others through nonverbal communication such as the hand gestures, eyes, body language and the outer appearance. Through her research for nonverbal communication in TED talks, Vanessa found that what attracted people the most is the hand gestures for which it can influence how people’s thinking and their feeling whether to feel glad or dread. Paul Ekman has found that human will give out the same expression that calls as microexpression whenever they feel intense emotion. Therefore the emotions such as fear could be sense by others through the facial expression and this kind of signal kept people safe as an early warning or as a startle for action. In facial feedback hypothesis, the emotions cause the face and the face could also cause the emotion. Therefore, we can spread positivity with face that produces by positive emotion. Not only through facial expression, the emotion also transmitted through sound and people can hear or sense our feeling whether we are in good or bad mood. This show how infectious and powerful our emotion and state of mind can be. Verbally, how we communicate and converse with others influence our appealing towards others. The best way to attract people is by making an optimistic conversation that can trigger their excitement and pleasure. Different manners by which we are infectious to others whether in positive or negative way is through nonverbal action, verbal interchanges and our feelings. The more persuasive we are, the more we can move others and the best way would be to be positive. SHAHIRA MAT ZAIB 1514278
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Ted Talks: You Are Contagious by Vanessa Van Edwards.
From the Ted Talk video that I was watching, humans are contagious and we expressed it emotionally and physically through our hand gestures. There are three ways how humans can be contagious. Firstly, nonverbally through the facial expression which expressed the emotions of a person either positive or negative expression. Secondly is verbally contagious where the questions we asked people really affects other people’s emotions. Lastly, emotionally contagious which the emotions we expressed such as excitement, nervous or sad will directly or indirectly affects the people around you.
From my point of view, first impressions and body languages are important and one needs to master this in preparing for a bigger event such as job interviews. What we presume is not always the likeable of another person. I agreed that what we think, speak and even feel can become contagious and that is why people always said to surround yourself with positive people because it might bring positivity into your own self. Emotions like anger, sad and stress should not be expressed too profoundly as the connections we had with people might ended up in a messed up situations.
There are few ways to overcome the nervousness and anxiety at the same time. First and foremost the essential thing is to think anything that brings you happiness and laughter. Singing or remembering a situation in a movie might be the option. This can cleared up the messiness in the head and make you calm at least a little. Second, just talk to yourself in a two way conversation, with yourself. This may give a person the ideas and eventually rearranged what we are going to talk or do in an orderly manner. Third, breathing exercises over a calm music is a go when you have stage fright. You can also imagined that you are talking to yourself only when performing without feeling emotionally judged by the audience’s expression. It’s a bonus if the audience can give a cheerful vibes whilst you are performing. Four, practice makes perfect. No one can make it through perfectly without stuttering and shaking if less practice were made. Practicing helps to relieve those fears and stutters, familiarize with the contents and makes the performer more confident in delivering to the audience. Always keep in mind that we are never a loser. Letting yourself out from the comfort zone is definitely a wiser move, thus considered yourself as a winner.
In conclusion, always be the person you wanted to be and do not let anybody gets you down. If we faced a judgmental situations, think of a good things life has to offer. Believe in yourself more than other could believe in you and hoping one day, we can become a good example to others.
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Assalamualaikum, Mdm Yati and all my dear Helixians. Here’s what I learnt from the video.
Miss Vanessa shared her idea that we are contagious as in people can pass on their emotions or intentions to others through gestures, words and actions. Human has ingrained instinct that is capable of translating others’ intentions just by the voice tones, hand gestures, choice of words and face expressions. When interacting with people, we consciously or unconsciously conveyed our emotions at the moment and these emotions are infecting others to think of things that are associated with them. For example, a person who is happy will speak jovially which the listeners are incline to feel the same way (empathy) and speak more freely in the conversation. Meanwhile, our brain will constantly try to read others’ intentions through their body language and face expression which will be mirrored by us. For instance, a tense body movement with lowered eyebrows and pressing lips together will be registered as a defensive posture in our brain and we will instantly prepare for a hostile situation. So, by learning to control our actions and words, we can control what kind of emotions we are spreading to people around us.
‘You are contagious’ is a video that taught me about presentation skills in which the speaker shares about how one talk or presentation can be memorable and remarkable for others. Besides hand gesture, the things that caught my attention are on the way the speaker plays with her voice intonation and facial expression. Besides, it is interesting to see the facts that our life could affect others so does our happiness and sadness. When things are rough but we still fake it in order not to make other worries actually it is the emotion and vibes that will show the true feelings of ours. Thus, in hard time, even though things seem hard but do not be easily affected by it because life got so many things to be cherished. Furthermore, remember that not only the things that we show verbally but also none verbally can affect others thus be confident and careful in things that we do.
-nurul atiqah mohd latif (1518276) -
Assalamualaikum and have a great day everyone.
Vanessa' talk had covered interesting things on how our behavior can effect others perception about us, understanding emotion and mood just from vocal sound and face expression. She also emphasized that "we are in control of how we feel and what we want to spread".
Commenting on her mean of presentation;
(1) she had good eye contact with audience, while having 2-ways interaction
(2) has vocal variety and calm, not monotone and clear speech
(3) her contents are well-managed, with aid of helpful slides with images and audio
(4) body and hand gesture are varied and fit with her content. P.S: her smile is beautiful :D
Muhamad Eddy Bin Boli,1511757
Assalammualaikum to Madam Yanti and to all readers especially my ‘English for Occupational Purpose (EOP)’ classmate.I am really excited after watching the presentation by Vanessa Van Edwards at the TEDxLondon.Im really impressed by the way Vanessa spread her idea and also her feelings through her bombastic presentation.Rather than just enjoying the presentation,I had gained lots of points that I realized but I did not practise it which is my communication skills which specifically refers to presentation skills.After the first presentation that we had done in our first EOP class and after watching the ‘You Are Contagious’ presentation,I had learned so many importants points that I need to stressed to do better presentation in front of class.The first thing to take into account when doing presentation or communication is hand gesture.To make people understand and more excited to our presentation,we need to practice many suitable hand gestures because aside from our words,people can just undertand what we spoke just through hand gestures.Other than that,non verbal expression is also one critical point in presentation.For example,during presentation,when we honestly cried when telling sad story to audience,the sad feelings and emotion will be felt by the audience making them feeling sad and even can cry.Next,we move to verbal communication skills which focuses on volume and intonation of our voice during presentation.Sometime during presentation,one statement can bring 2 different effects to the audience.For example,the word ‘really’ at high note showed surprise but at low note will show disbelief.Finally,content.The way we chose words and statements to deliver idea and points really matters when doing presentation.To make sure audience like and excited to our presentation,we can not use normal statements and words that would not bring emotion to the audience.We need to spread the positive emotion when presenting such as rather than to say ‘Any question?’ when finishing presentation,we can go for ‘Thank you for your attention. Now I am happy to answer any questions you might have’ which will cause the audience more attracted to ask question.In conclusion,these all components such as verbal,non-verbal,content,voice and hand gestures are really important points that need to be practiced by presenter such as myself for better resuly and response by the audience.Thank you.
Assalamualaikum Madam. I had watched the video and I found that it was very interesting and inspiring. Vanessa explained on the importance of hand gestures, body languages, vocal variety and facial expressions in showing our contents and capturing people's attention. One of new knowledge I got from this video was about microexpression which is an involuntary expression of emotions. We are contagious and people able to feel our emotions based on our facial expression. For example, if we are expressing happiness, people able to tell that we are in excitement. Beside that, I also learnt on how we want to infect people with our emotions. What we need to do is set our emotions. If we want to trigger excitement, then start the conversation with worthy questions, happy tone, use hand gestures and make authentic smile. It showed that we are confidence and it is contagious. People can feel our confidence and change their way in perceiving our confidence. Last but not least, aside from confidence, I learnt that we need to set up our mind, our emotions to become more positive so that we are able to do things and live in positive ways. What I can conclude here is we can change people's perspective on us by changing our behavior towards become more positive person, more confidence while communicate with other people, then u will become more likeable person by others.
Name : NOR SHAFIQAH BINTI NOR SHAHRIL
Matric Number : 1514232
Programme : Bachelor of Biotechnology
Course Code : LE 4300K (Semester 1, 2018/2019)
Title of assignment:
FEEDBACK FROM “YOU ARE CONTAGIOUS” BY VANESSA VAN EDWARDS
The video entitled “You Are Contagious” by Vanessa Van Edwards talked about how people are contagious and affect others perception towards us. The first five minutes of the video told us that hand gestures are very important in affecting people around us. This can be proved by the study that found the popular ted-talk videos have more hand gestures compared to the unpopular ted-talk videos.
Vanessa discussed that there are three ways on how people can be contagious; non-verbally, verbally and emotionally. Micro-expression has been mentioned in this video which can affect people nonverbally. The most common micro-expression is our facial expression. It is because people can see our emotions through our facial expression. The video also mentioned about how real smile can produce happiness instead of fake smile which produced nothing. People can tell by our facial expression whether we like them or not. Other micro-expression is through our voice. Vanessa also played two same voice with different emotions. To conclude, micro-expression is all about our emotions reflected by our facial and voice expression.
Next, people are infectious verbally. Vanessa mentioned that we can infect people through conversation, by choosing our words wisely. It is because the words we speak will affect and catch people attention together with emotions. The speaker also suggested to change our words during conversation to make other people happy and create their excitement by triggering their dopamine. One of the most interesting sentence that Vanessa changed is from “How are you?” to “Anything good happen today?” which could make people happy and excited to talk to you.
Lastly, we are contagious in terms of emotionally. The speaker mentioned that our mind-set is important by saying that anxiety and excitement are similar emotions but different in terms of the mind-set itself.
In conclusion, Vanessa said that we can control ourselves on how to infect people around us. We can manage ourselves on how to spread our feelings towards people through nonverbal, verbal and emotion.
Najihah (1516102)
In this video, the presenter, Vanessa stated that we are contagious. She addressed three ways on how an individual can affect other human beings. According to her, we infect people nonverbally, verbally and emotionally. People are most likely remembering the way we affect their emotion throughout micro-facial expression, body languages, tones of the voice, and words that we used to express ourselves in the conversations. For instance, she set up several tests to analyze the hypothesis on people are easily affected by others based on three methods she listed. The analysis on the most popular Ted-talk videos against the least favored videos and found out that the more hand gestures applied to highlight the content, the more it catches the viewers depicted the nonverbal effect. Whilst, the test on differences of sweat smell regarding certain condition portrayed that emotion does infect others and the test of different micro-expression be it subtle gestures or volume of the voice also affecting other either non verbally or verbally. She concluded four steps to effectively spread the right and bright infection to other are ask for dopamine-worthy conversation starters, smile genuinely, use more hand gestures, speak when you are not having ‘grueling grumpy moment’ and end the conversation with excitement.
There are several important points related with our interaction with other people that are worth to be learnt from the speech video of ‘You Are Contagious’, by Vanessa Van Edwards on YouTube that I have watched. The main lesson learnt is we can infect other people verbally, non-verbally and emotionally.
First of all, we can be contagious verbally. In other words, the way we speak can affect others. In the video, Vanessa highly recommended to speak positive words to the person or people that we were having interaction with. For example, do ask simple questions related with hobby or their current interest. These kind of questions will unintentionally bring out the excitement, thus they will become genuinely pleasant to answer our questions or interacting with you. You will also become more likeable as well as memorable to the person as she or he can be considered as having a great time with you. The person might as well tell to his or her circle of friends about you, thus showing how contagious you are to other people.
Next, we can also infect other people through non-verbal aspect. This aspect involves our own expressions and body language. Vanessa stated that the first thing that we saw when we interacted with someone was hand gestures. I have to disagree with Vanessa as in my opinion, I always look at the face or expressions of the person I am having interaction with. Even though the person’s hand gestures are perfect and synchronized with the content of their speech or talk but presenting or interacting to the audience with a stern or annoyed face, people will feel uncomfortable with you and not be focusing on your content anymore. Similar thing goes with when the person is presenting without having any hand gesture, but with a composed voice along with clear and remarkable way of speaking, the person can still attract the audience.
These first two aspects in making our self to be well-known to the people we are having interaction with, is actually controlled by our own emotions. Indeed, our emotions play a vital role especially when we are interacting with others. I do agree with Vanessa as she stated that our emotions can really affect other people. She also asserted that, besides our emotion caught on our face, our face also caught our emotion. In other words, our emotions can be portrayed on our face, known as expressions and body language. As I mention before, people are actually observing our expression and body language while we are having interaction with them. I have realized that if we are genuinely feeling happy and show that we are pleased while communicating with others, we can also feel that they also cannot help but feeling excited and content being with us as well. If we observe further, we can even feel that our surrounding are having the similar vibe as we have at that moment.
There is a few quotes to be mentioned which positively indicating that what we feel also can affect others. First, there is a saying from Buddhist teaching stated, “If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path”. Moreover, Harvey Mackay, a well-known author and columnist also said that he felt good and made his surrounding even better, when he was having positive thinking.
What have I learned? By 1516574.
I think the central idea that Vanessa was trying to convey was about the influence of non-verbal communication and its importance to be harnessed as a skill in order to deliver an impactful speech. Among the non-verbal skills that were pointed out by Vanessa are hand gestures, facial expressions and tones and sounds. Truthfully before listening to the talk, I have always thought that giving out body languages were disadvantageous; for examples I used to think that hand gestures in a speech was just accessories that sometimes get in the way in delivering a meaningful speech and that facial expressions are a weakness as they are like a window to our soul and make it obvious when we are feeling nervous or experiencing other negative feelings. However, through Vanessa’s talk, my perception changed. I was able to understand the contribution of these gestures towards our communication. The right gestures can make people like and trust us and the way to do that is by polishing our non-verbal skills. By saying that she is a recovering awkward person, Vanessa also gave me confidence that these skills are possible to be developed and not sets of priori intelligence that are only possessed by charismatic individuals.
Nor Amira Yusof (1515920)
From this video, it makes me realized that our behavior while having conversation is very affections where it could affect the emotions of a person whom we talked to, especially when we apply hand gestures. This explained that body language also can affect us emotionally.
Vanessa revealed that mankind is contagious and how mankind infects other people with the right one either verbally, non-verbally and emotions. Firstly, a nonverbal contagious is a how to catch an emotion of someone and create rational at the same time such as looking into something with face reaction. There is a term called micro-expression. It is a universal facial expression such as fear, excited expression. However, mankind always practice worst micro-expression without realizing it. For instance, by asking how are you, and what do you do? Which leads to no pleasure effect and excitement at all. Facial expression is importance as it affects our emotion expression. Simply said, emotion and facial expression comes together to make it real and livable.
Secondly, contagious can be expressed verbally by having an exciting conversation starter which will make our body release more dopamine. This is because our brain always looked for hits and no misses. In details we should ask question that will create excitement so that they can bring the exciting memory from the past to the current situation we’re in where it eventually makes it more memorable.
Lastly, we are contagious emotionally. Anxiety and excitement are both similar emotion and differentiated by mindset. Always be contagious by applying these 3 ways.
Vanessa Van Edwards, A speaker from ted talks with topic which en-titled "Your are contagious"
At first, she gave a brief explanationn for what and why certain ted talkers video goes virals and others don't.
She also had gathered teams in order to do the social experiments.
She preps several mock experiments in the society to see the contagious effects.
All of this is actually to learn the relationship between emotial feedback and rational thought.
As a results,she claimed that every actions and expresisons can give a huge influence to others. Not to mentions that the chemical compouds that act as a happy pills is Dopamine which located at our brain.
The one that impress me the most is actually, she works the talks she gave.
The ways she delivered her messages to audients is exciting and very informative. How she talks,standings, walks and even her facial expression and hand gestures.
From Vanessa's talks.It is really important to look at our behaviours and expressions during our interaction with others especially the presenter who present their presentations.Also, when we are having a conversation with peoples, we should try to give a good vibe so that the emotional feedback can go in a positive directions and at the same time create a good influence.
To sum ups, all things and key points that vaneesa told, can be beneficial to my study and also increased my communication skills. I'm excited!
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Hello, my name is Nur Liyana binti Mohd Izan. Contagious is a very powerful word which define as an emotion, feeling or attitude that is likely to spread and affect others. Regarding to the video of Vanessa Van Edwards at TEDxLondon, which entitled “You are contagious” is reflecting the whole message in the video where everyone of us has potential to influence other people, either in positive or negative way. Amazing, right? Imagine when you smiled to stranger while walking by the streets and get a smile back from them, even the little thing like that can actually give us happiness and boost our energy naturally. Plus, I really like it when Vanessa gave suggestion to change the way we ask question since asking questions also can give effect to other people, surprisingly. For example, instead of asking “You’re busy lately?”, we can try by asking in positive way namely “Working anything exciting these days?”. Turns out people will think of stress scenes that they faced when there is ‘busy’ word in the question, and imagine of excite scenes when ‘exciting’ word comes in. That is how powerful of being contagious and that is why we need to bring everything in positive way so that we will live in positive atmosphere! Good day!;)
We are contagious
Seeing someone, first thing we see is the hand rather than other part of the body. The act is spontaneous because our brain wants to assess whether the person friend or foe.
The emotion is contagious. This emotion can be transferred to the other person whether it is happy, sad, anger, etc. the way we talking, the intonation can be interpreted as our emotion and this can make our surrounding affected.
the body language is contagious. Static movement less memorable than people that good with body language.
the facial expression is contagious. The fear expression made our brain thinking what he/she is feared of while looking our surrounding. Happy expression leads us to question why he/she is happy to share the happiness.
when starting conversation, we have to avoid the negative thought or the question that lead to it but give the person positive thinking so that we become more memorable.
Good writer can even transfer their emotion through writing, but unfortunately, I’m not one of them.
Hope you not remember the last line only.
Why are we contagious ? Why are action can affect other personal behaviours ? This is because the concept of three levels of mind is nothing new. Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian psychologist was probably the first to popularize it into mainstream society as we know it today. Even though his theories have subsequently been widely disputed in Psychology circles because they are very hard to scientifically prove, Freud nonetheless created a useful model of the mind, which he separated into 3 tiers or sections which is the conscious mind, the preconscious and the unconscious mind. The preconscious and the unconscious mind is the memories that will absorb all thing around us unintentionally, it will affect our conscious mind, feelings, emotions, imagination, sensations, dream and finally our behaviour. For example, if we live in the environment who go to university we will say it is wrong not to go to university.
Review on “You are contagious by Vanesa Van Edwards”
From my perspective, human are contagious. This is because people tend to do what others do or in other words someone can affect someone physically and emotionally behavioral either positive or negative. According to Vanesa, human are contagious to others through three aspects; nonverbal, verbally and emotional. First, human nonverbally contagious to others. For instance, Vanesa do an experiment where she look up somewhere in air while standing in the street without saying any words, and suddenly peoples around her also look up. So this is prove that people are attract to copy others people behavior unconciously. Second, human verbally contagious to others. A man can spread either positive or vibes to peoples through the way we talk. For example, if we say hello to someone with happy voice, they automatically will get happy while vice versa. Third, human can emotionally contagious others. Anxiety and excitement are similar emotions but different in mindset. It up to us wheter to harness incitement or trigger excitement. We are control in how we feel and what we want to spread.
Assalamualaikum and a very good day everyone! So I’m here to share my thoughts on the video “You are contagious – Vanessa”. The very first thing that I learned from Vanessa is that anyone might have the awkward phase in her or his life but, it does not matter how we started, what matter is how we end. Like Vanessa, she claimed that she used to be an awkward person but not anymore as she takes the effort to understand and take actions to overcome her awkwardness and it was proven when she delivered well during the TED talk. So, I really think that everyone should take efforts to improve own self-confident in order to be more productive. Secondly, seeing her presenting I can actually see that she is implementing what she shared in her speech. She delivered her content with excitement in her voice, exciting hand gestures and also genuine microexpressions. It was apparent that she was content and really want to make the audience feel the same. Other than that, I also learned that to ensure the audience captures the right emotion that the speaker wish to deliver, words of choice should be carefully chosen. The right words will excite the listener and make them want to hear more and the speaker surely will be delighted to explain more. This positive interaction definitely can spread the positive vibes around. Last but not least, everyone has their own phase, the path of discovering own self-confident and making efforts to achieve it is something to be cheered on and cherished. Thank you :)
We can be contagious in three different ways. The first one is by nonverbally whereby our body gestures, facial expressions and even voice can infect people in our surrounding. People tend to catch emotions that they see or hear. Therefore, when we show a happy facial expression, people in our surrounding will catch that happy emotion and respond by being happy too. Addition to that, we will become more likable by people. The second one is by verbally. When asking a question, it should not be those common questions that turns people into auto-pilot mode. The question should be dopamine triggering which means it should be able to create a pleasure feeling on the person being asked. Lastly, we can be contagious by emotionally. A person's mindset plays a major role in the outcome of a task whereby a positive mindset or feeling of excitement leads to a positive outcome or success.
People can gain human attention when he/she do lots of gesture during talking. This statement is proved by a study conducted by Vanessa . She want to figure out why some ted talkers are popular and why some ted talkers are not popular. So, she start to look for difference between popular ted talker and the least popular ted talker. She start to analyze on hand gesture, body movement, vocal variability and others. Based on her analysis,she found out that hand gestures play important role to influence people. She found out that popular ted talker did average 465 hand gesture in 80 minutes while the least popular ted talker did 272 gestures. This showed that, hand gesture is important when people talking or presenting. Besides, through hand gesture, we can convince the audience that we understand well the content of our presentation. Human emotion is contagious in three different ways which are through non verbally, verbally or being controlled. In non verbally, the emotions expressed can be transmitted to next person without the need to talk. Vanessa did experiment by looking at the top where there is actually nothing up there. For a few minutes, some people joined her to watch the top building and try to figure out what actually happen there. This study proved that people can be influenced through our expression and emotions although we did not speak to them. In verbally, we can influence people over conversation. We can influence them to be happy and we also can influence them to be moody. Dopamine is a hormone that can trigger happiness in people. If we ask positive question to them, dopamine will be released to their body triggering happiness to them. If we ask negative things to them, they will automatically become sad. Thus, in order to make people happy, we need to ask something that can trigger their dopamine release such as by asking are they working anything exciting these day, is there any vacations coming up, is anything good happen today and other positive things that can make that person happy. By doing this, it can bring excitement to that people and it can make us memorable since we make them happy. Besides, to trigger dopamine release, we need to use hand gesture, make authentic smile and never talk to people in when we are in stressful condition. thus, by making other people happy, we also will be happy =)
Vanessa talks about one of her studies of how some tedtalks were more popular than others. Her team concluded hand gestures is the most important indicator. This is due to the fact that historically; humans believe that seeing someone’s hands makes them more trustworthy. In the case of tedtalks, better use of hand gestures can indicate one’s understanding of the content they want to present. More use of hand gestures can convince the audience that you know what you are talking about. Another social experiment done by her demonstrates how one’s emotion can be ‘caught’ by another. One of the emotions was happiness. She shows two faces which are genuine happiness and fake happiness. The study done shows some people how they feel when they look at them. What she concluded was that people are more memorable and likeable when they show genuine happiness. There was also a study where they studied two kinds of voices and how people responded to them. The ‘happier’ voice also was more likeable to the participants. Moreover, she studied what kinds of conversation starters that can trigger someone’s excitement. The study looks at combinations of body language, phrases, and variation of volume. Conversation starters that we usually hear such as “how are you” are the lowest ranked conversation starters. This is because these kinds of conversation starters do not trigger dopamine release in humans. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that is released when you are excited. Finally, she studied how emotions are ‘contagious’. They found that people who are genuinely excited can sing more accurately. In conclusion, hand gestures, body language and genuine excitement can make you more likeable and memorable which is very important for someone giving a speech or presentation.
From Vanessa’s video entitled “You are contagious”, I learnt few things regarding self-confident. First, by overcoming our fear, we will become more confident. And the way to overcome fear is by acquiring knowledge. When Vanessa found out that the most popular TED talks having more hand gestures, she believed that she should also practice to use hand gestures when giving speech. She also discovered that the non-verbal action, verbal and emotion can be felt and sensed by the people around us. So, by applying the correct act (non-verbally, verbally and emotionally), we can confidently talk in front of the people.
(Nur Atiqah bt Mohd Shahar 1517088)
NUR ATILIA MASRI
1511610
Based on the video, I learn that we can influence people and attract people through nonverbal, verbal and emotionally ways unconsciously. The speaker mentioned that humans tend to focus more on gestures, be it hand gestures or even body gestures. It happened because our brain is programmed to look for gestures especially on hand gestures to analyze the situation. Besides that, our facial expression can give out signal or meaning of the situation and convey it to the people around us unconsciously. Our voice tones can also affect people in a conversation, for example, if we start a conversation in an excited tone people around us we feel the joy that we are trying to deliver. Furthermore, a great conversation or even talk will make our brain release a chemical called dopamine that usually connected when people are feeling happy or excited. With that chemical, we are able to attract more people to us and at the same time making us more likeable. In addition to that, we can influence people by emotions thru our actions and words unconsciously thus we need to stay positive to be able to give good vibes to the people around us and we need to practice more on our actions.
From the TEDx Talk Video on “You are contagious” given by Vanessa Van Edwards, I have learned that we can affect others whether verbally, non-verbally or emotionally. When we talk, most people will see our hands first in which we can see or predict people intentions by looking their hands. In order to have appropriate hand gestures while giving speech, we need to understand the content well and in order to highlight the main points in our presentation, hand gestures help to deliver and explain the concept to audiences better. The way we deliver things and the way we react changes the way people see us and also may affect their emotion. If we give positive emotion, set a positive mindset and also talk on positive things, it will give use confidence as well as other people around us. The optimism will produce happiness and make us become more memorable. So yes, we are contagious!
Assalamualaikum.
Based on the video ‘you are contagious’ by Vanessa Van Edwards, I learn on how each of our behavior from the talk to the action can make people become attracted to us and change the way others perceive our confidence. Vanessa also has revealed on how we could influence or be infectious to others. There are three ways we can be contagious that are nonverbally, verbally and emotionally. We can give nonverbal impact to others through nonverbal communication such as the hand gestures, eyes, body language and the outer appearance. Through her research for nonverbal communication in TED talks, Vanessa found that what attracted people the most is the hand gestures for which it can influence how people’s thinking and their feeling whether to feel glad or dread. Paul Ekman has found that human will give out the same expression that calls as microexpression whenever they feel intense emotion. Therefore the emotions such as fear could be sense by others through the facial expression and this kind of signal kept people safe as an early warning or as a startle for action. In facial feedback hypothesis, the emotions cause the face and the face could also cause the emotion. Therefore, we can spread positivity with face that produces by positive emotion. Not only through facial expression, the emotion also transmitted through sound and people can hear or sense our feeling whether we are in good or bad mood. This show how infectious and powerful our emotion and state of mind can be. Verbally, how we communicate and converse with others influence our appealing towards others. The best way to attract people is by making an optimistic conversation that can trigger their excitement and pleasure. Different manners by which we are infectious to others whether in positive or negative way is through nonverbal action, verbal interchanges and our feelings. The more persuasive we are, the more we can move others and the best way would be to be positive.
SHAHIRA MAT ZAIB
1514278
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