Hands: so useful, yet so problematic! What to do with them? Shove them into pockets? Use them to clutch the sides of the lectern with last-lifeboat-off-the-Titanic fervor? Flick away invisible flies?

Learn more about hand gestures and how some of them can mean two vastly different things depending on the culture you're in.

Making simple up and down hand movements while speaking may influence the way people hear what you are saying. We often use meaningless movements, such as flicking or waving our hands, known as beat ...

Everyone “talks” with their hands at least sometimes. Some people’s hand-talking or gesturing matches their message well. Other people have a tendency to make overly large gestures that can be ...

How you present yourself says a lot about you, and much of that comes down to what you do with your hands. That’s especially true when speaking in front of an audience. According to a recent study, ...