If you’d like to read someone’s mind, start with their body.

Would you like to get inside someone’s head?

 

You’ll have to start with the rest of their body. To determine how someone is really feeling, try mimicking any body language you can pick up from them, including facial expressions, posture and stance. Dutch scientists put body mimicking to the test and participants who accurately aped their opponents were able to gauge their state of mind, mood and emotions more accurately than those who just tried to guess.