{"id":11465,"date":"2024-09-17T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2024\/09\/17\/listening-body-language-interviews-journalism\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T19:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:19:28","slug":"listening-body-language-interviews-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2024\/09\/17\/listening-body-language-interviews-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you really listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Areporter friend once told me that interviewing, for him, was a \u201cfull-body sport.\u201d His toss-off comment was a&nbsp;<em>Yes!<\/em>&nbsp;moment for me. It crystallized why, when I finished a interview, I was so drained. The exhaustion was more than the residual tension that is a standard part of any interview. Rather, it was flat-out, the kind that comes when your full self \u2014 all five physical senses plus the sixth of perception \u2014 is engaged. It maybe akin to what athletes feel following a game, when they \u201cleave it all on the field.\u201d When my interviews worked, I was doing more than asking questions and jotting the answers. I was trying to notice everything around me: The song on the radio, the picture on the wall, the edge in a story subject\u2019s voice or the squint in their gaze, the spaces between what they said as much as the words they actually spoke.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Years later, I read somewhere that a small percentage \u2014 I can\u2019t remember the actual number, but maybe around 20 percent \u2014 of what we communicate is in the words we speak. The rest is conveyed through body language, tone of voice, pauses and loop-arounds, eye contact, our surroundings and so much more. It\u2019s an IMAX theater and surround sound and GIFs and interactive graphics all tripping over each other.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>It\u2019s so much fun \u2014 when it works. Too often, it doesn\u2019t, either because we, as the interviewers, are distracted or, frankly, are not in the kind of shape it takes to listen, watch, notice, question, wonder and record that fully all at once.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Developing listening skills<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I\u2019ve often thought those kind of 360-degree interview skills are missing from most journalism training. I\u2019ve long been fascinated by people who really know how to listen. Not just to check the boxes of behavior that signals listening, but to&nbsp;<em>listen<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>During a particularly rocky time in my life, I found a therapist I trusted. I saw her on and off for about 10 years and learned a lot about how I responded to my life, often getting in my own way. But I think the process was slower than it needed to be because I was so busy studying how she did what she did: How she listened to me, attended fully to me for 50 minutes (and then did the same for several others on the same day), got me to sort through and say what I really meant, sometimes when she hadn\u2019t said anything at all. I took note of the shape of her questions \u2014 sometimes an open prairie, sometimes a narrow road through my tangled forest of emotion and memory. I watched when she took notes, and when she didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Since that experience, I have often thought back to the many people in my life who have certain and special listening skills: the good priests, the teachers who figured out how to motivate me, the human resource experts who could suss out a potential hire, the best editors, other reporters. Listening may be the most important skill a reporter \u2014 or any caring human being \u2014 can have. It is as complex as it is fundamental. Yet most of us only know and practice a few of its many dimensions. True listening demands a lot of us. I am keenly aware of my own limitations, and especially of the times I am simply not present or too selfish enough to really listen.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Body langauge \u201ctells\u201d<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>This musing was prompted, oddly enough, by last week\u2019s televised debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump. (This is where I offer the disclaimer that this is not intended as a political statement. Your interpretation is, of course, yours.) From the moment Harris strode across the stage, entered Trump\u2019s podium space and dared him to shake her hand, I was leaning forward:&nbsp;<em>Well, this is interesting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I spent the next 90-plus minutes<em>&nbsp;<\/em>watching as much as listening. As a regular and broad news reader, I didn\u2019t expect to hear anything new about policy. And indeed, I didn\u2019t. But&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>&nbsp;things were said \u2014 how loudly or petulantly or fiercely or passionately or clearly \u2014 kept me rapt, as did the facial expressions on display.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I sensed the message being conveyed. Or, to be honest, what I perhaps wanted that message to be. We can\u2019t help but project, which adds to the challenge of good reporting. It\u2019s hard to listen, and impossible to truly hear, if you\u2019re projecting your own entrenched biases and assumptions, or filling in the blanks with what you think are the correct answers.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>So I watched the debate, was taken with the show, had my own views \u2014 but tried to park assessments I had no expertise to make.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Then, the morning after, I read a piece in Politico by famed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jnforensics.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cspycatcher\u201d Joe Navarro<\/a>, a former FBI agent and international consultant on nonverbal communication. I know some people sniff about what they presume are Politico\u2019s political leanings (another assessment I am not studied enough to make). I don\u2019t know anything about Navarro\u2019s. I\u2019m sure there are more than a few out there who question the wisdom of trusting the FBI.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>But rather than read Navarro for political hints, I read him as an education in how our bodies add meaning to our words. He assessed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jnforensics.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>\u201c9 Body Language Tells\u201d<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;on display at the debates. His brief set-up was framed like this:<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Particularly in politics, words have a way of bending the truth. But the messages we communicate with our bodies \u2014 a raised eyebrow, pursed lips, a too-tight smile \u2014 speak with an authenticity rarely found in a stump speech.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>From there he analyzed everything from posture to eye contact (or lack of same) to the movement of neck muscles, which I learned is called \u201cmotion in the laryngeal thyroid cartilage.\u201d I also learned that a true smile is known, by people who study this stuff, a Duchenne smile, in which \u201cthe eyes naturally crinkle as the zygomaticus major muscle pulls the corners of the mouth into an easy grin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I\u2019m not about to start making judgments by how someone squints when we\u2019re talking. For all I know, they didn\u2019t get much sleep, or have allergies. Acting as a sudden expert in body language is as dangerous for a reporter as acting as a trained therapist.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>But how much better would our journalism \u2014 and relationships \u2014 be if we expanded our listening skills beyond asked-and-answered?<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editor ponders the complexity and importance of deep and broad listening skills which tell a fuller story than the usual 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