non-verbal leak

plural non-verbal leaks · alternative Non-Verbal Leak · alternative NVL

1. A repetitive, patterned movement from the shoulders up, reflecting an unresolved perceived trauma and manifesting an old decision or strategy from the past.

   Such “non-verbal leaks” give away a person’s real attitude.

   1989, Walburga Von Raffler-Engel, Doctor-patient Interaction, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 32

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   (2) more able to control affective expression and inhibit non-verbal leaks;

   1988, Richard W. Byrne, Andrew Whiten, Machiavellian intelligence: social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes, and humans, Clarendon Press, page 247

   The Goodfield Method is based on the non-verbal leak (NVL), which is a repetitive, patterned head-and-neck movement that reflects an individual’s unresolved, perceived trauma.

   Summer 2007, Barry Austin Goodfield, Saddam Hussein: The Unconscious Mind of The Butcher of Baghdad—New Tools Reveal What the World Does Not Know in The Forensic Examiner, page 39

   Check out The Summer 2006 and Summer 2007 issues of The Forensic Examiner to read about Dr. Goodfield's analysis of the Non-Verbal Leaks of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein.

   Winter 2007, Leann Long, The Goodfield Method: An Interview with Dr. Barry Goodfield in The Forensic Examiner, page 62

   Jeffrey Krivis, a prominent California mediator, has reviewed the literature on “Interpersonal Deception Theory” and compiled this list of non-verbal leaks that may help reveal when a speaker is lying.

   2008, Barry Goldman, The Science of Settlement: Ideas for Negotiators, Aliaba, page 65