What Did Jada and Will’s Red Table Body Language Say?

Are they telling the truth?

Body language tells us what we think and feel but do not say. In a conversation, behavior contains far more content than words.

The expert who uses the alias Behavioral Arts is a master at translating that language.

He went through the Red Table Conversation between Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith. He made some invaluable observations about the talk.

Let’s see what we can learn from this conversation caused by a media leak.

Jada’s hands

When we move our fingers during a talk, the direction in which we move them tells much about how we feel.

If we move our fingers outward we might be feeling comfortable. We could also know how a relaxed person appears to us, so we try to imitate that image. We will often overdo the gesture if we are uncomfortable but pretend because our emotions are uncalibrated.

For example, we might display our palms in an attempt to seem at ease. We don’t realize that we are also making a stop gesture, that is, from a subconscious perspective.

A stop gesture is what we would do in a car driven by someone else. If they slam on the brakes without warning, our instinctive movement…