Comments on: Mehrabian’s nonverbal communication research: How it’s misinterpreted

By: The Mehrabian Myth: your words DO matter more than 7%! « The business of presenting

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:58:13 +0000

[...] Mehrabian’s original research (expertly detailed by Olivia Mitchell here) examined non-verbal communication and identified that those percentages apply when someone is [...]

By: Mehrabian’s research: The secondary misinterpretation : Speaking about Presenting

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:31:45 +0000

[...] visiting! OliviaBert Decker has written a comprehensive reply on his blog to my first post on the Mehrabian myth. However, I disagree with his interpretation of Mehrabian’s research and in a moment [...]

By: Colin McLean

Colin McLean — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:59:27 +0000

Olivia, your excellent blogs have been widely quoted and signposted in my recent discussions, e-mails, tweets and even more recent Body Language Seminar. Not altogether frivolously I wondered if the growing clan of champions might not muster under the banner of the ‘Mehrabian Knights’. We are, after all, concerned to set his research in its proper light rather than discredit it. That’s clear. So, anyone got a suitable heraldic device in mind?

By: Humour and the Art of Non-verbal Communication – Pro Humorist | Pro Humorist

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:10:15 +0000

[...] 38% – 55% and debunked a few myths as has Olivia Mitchell whose series of articles, including Why the stickiest idea in presenting is just plain wrong, about this very subject not only exposes some of the myths surrounding the blatant manipulation of [...]

By: Simon Raybould

Simon Raybould — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:37:46 +0000

Hi – the man himself recently did a short interview about this very subject for the BBC. Check here.

In short he says “My work was taken out of context and can’t be generalised the way way some people have pretended.”

By: Stephanie West Allen

Stephanie West Allen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:04:31 +0000

I have posted about Mehrabian in the past here:

http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/2007/03/what_is_the_big.html

And here:

http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/2009/08/busting-the-mehrabian-myth-is-anyone-still-using-that-inaccurate-55387-communication-fiction.html

By: A summary of research on nonverbal communication : Speaking about Presenting

A summary of research on nonverbal communication : Speaking about Presenting — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:00:55 +0000

[...] I showed how this has often been misinterpreted to apply to the meaning that is derived from a communication, or to the feelings that are engendered in the listener. (The studies are in fact restricted to the [...]

By: Words Do Matter – Busting the Mehrabian Myth – Forty Plus Two

Words Do Matter – Busting the Mehrabian Myth – Forty Plus Two — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:04:32 +0000

[...] Myth (video is below). So, what is the Mehrabian Myth then? Olivia Mitchell writes about in Why the stickiest idea in presenting is just plain wrong: The stickiest idea in presenting and public speaking is that the meaning of your message is [...]

By: Life After PowerPoint! » Blog Archive » Busting the Mehrabian Myth

Life After PowerPoint! » Blog Archive » Busting the Mehrabian Myth — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:45:39 +0000

[...] Mitchell has done a great job here examining the original research and how people have misinterpreted [...]

By: De mythe van Mehrabian - NLP en Business

De mythe van Mehrabian - NLP en Business — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:47:42 +0000

[...] Mitchell, auteur van de excellente Speaking about Presenting weblog, is zelfs gestart met een “Campaign to Stop the Mehrabian Myth”. In de volgende 2 artikels op haar website legt ze om waarom deze mythe nonsens [...]