Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts

An astounding account of how gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we learn and interact, which “changes the way you think about yourself and the people around you.” (Ethan Kross, bestselling author of Chatter)

We all know people who talk with their hands—but do they know what they’re saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us, and express thoughts we may not even know we’re thinking.

In Thinking with Your Hands, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow ...