Our bodies are the frames that our brain uses to understand other people.

What could be better than a female neuroscientist explaining the science of body language and empathy with a passage from Anaïs Nin? That’s right, very little – see Lisa Aziz-Zadeh do precisely that at PopTech.

For more on the fascinating emerging field of social cognitive neuroscience, see Matthew Lieberman on the science of why our brains are wired to connect.