10 Sep 2023

Susan Goldin-Meadow: Gestures are our thoughts hidden

From Sunday Morning, 9:40 am on 10 September 2023
Susan Goldin-Meadow

Photo: University of Chicago

Susan Goldin-Meadow is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and one of the world foremost experts on gestures.

She has found that gestures express substantive information which otherwise might not be conveyed in the speech it accompanies revealing secret thinking to those who pay attention.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds her hands in her typical "Raute" (rhombus) position as she attends the G20 Investment Summit during the "Compact with Africa" conference on trade, aid and diplomacy on October 30, 2018 at the AXICA Congress center in Berlin. (Photo by AXEL SCHMIDT / POOL / AFP)

Photo: AXEL SCHMIDT