The Ultimate Body Language Book

long as we keep it internalized. We can still make educated guesses or employ “working hypothesis”
that can change with additional information as it is collected. One or two cues is sometimes all we get.
Older people, who naturally have more controlled and subtle affect, and people learned at controlling
their body language, such as public figures, only emit very subtle, fleeting or few nonverbal cues. In
this subset of very controlled and practiced people, we often only see cues that are accidentally leaked,
which in and of themselves are important, perhaps even more so then complete cue clusters in regular
people. The caution here is to avoid premature conclusions on weak data especially when the stakes are
high and that sometimes a gesture isn’t anything more than a gesture.