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Body Language Decoded

Like Duolingo, but for Body Language Decoded. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

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Body Language Decoded
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26
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Body Language Decoded

  • Interest-based gazes and dilation
  • Aggressive stares and facial tension
  • Stress and blink frequency
  • The blink flutter as tension release
  • Pupils dilate involuntarily when the brain finds something stimulating
  • Blink rates increase as a physiological response to cognitive or emotional pressure
  • Distinguishing between interest-based gazes and aggressive stares
  • Mapping specific eye behaviors to their underlying biological or emotional causes
  • The physiological sequence of blinking frequency during and after a stressful event
  • The orbicularis oculi muscle contracts involuntarily in genuine smiles
  • Social smiles only involve the zygomatic major muscle (mouth corners)
  • Smiles serve functions beyond expressing happiness
  • Non-Duchenne smiles are used to navigate social hierarchies
  • Genuine smiles are triggered by the brain's limbic system
  • The orbicularis oculi is difficult to contract at will
  • Identifying the physiological marker of a genuine Duchenne smile
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Body Language Decoded the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Shadows in the Iris

You're locked in a stare-down. Which facial tell suggests your suspect is harboring hostile intent?

Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.

Course map

Where Body Language Decoded takes you

Learn to read the hidden messages people send without saying a word. Discover how to understand others and project confidence using the silent language of the body.

  1. 1

    The Basics of Silent Talk

    • What Your Eyes Are Really Saying
    • The Secret Meaning of Smiles
    • How We Use Our Hands to Speak
    • Why Personal Space Matters
  2. 2

    Reading People in Real Life

    • Spotting When Someone is Nervous
    • Signs That Someone is Interested
    • How to Tell if Someone is Lying
    • Understanding Defensive Postures
    • The Power of Mirroring Others
    • Reading the Room at a Party
  3. 3

    Using Your Body to Succeed

    • Standing with True Confidence
    • Making a Great First Impression
    • How to Look Calm Under Pressure

3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

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Body Language Decoded is taught in the The Detective style: every fact is a clue. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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