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Body Language And Sales, Lindsay Larson, Adam Puckett, Timothy C. Heinze Mar 2020

Body Language And Sales, Lindsay Larson, Adam Puckett, Timothy C. Heinze

Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Proceedings 2020

Utilizing professional sales competition videos taken from a university Sales program, the current study investigates the link between nonverbal gestures made by salespeople and performance scores given by professional sales recruiters watching their role plays. The results of this study may suggest a relationship between gesture use and perceptions of sales ability.