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Vanessa Van Edwards is a behavioral investigator and national best-selling author of Captivate: Use Science to Succeed with People (2017). She is also a corporate speaker and body language trainer specializing in science-based people skills. She runs Science of People, a human behavior research lab in Portland, Oregon where she studies charisma, influence and power body language
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- Vanessa van edwards oregon best fest 2015
- 5 minute life lessons with vanessa van edwards
- Biography
- Career
- References
5 minute life lessons with vanessa van edwards
Biography
Van Edwards, maiden name Van Petten, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2007.She currently lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband.
Career
Van Edwards is lead investigator at her human behavior research lab, the Science of People. She conducts original research experiments on popular pyschology and communication.
Van Edwards writes monthly columns for Entrepreneur Magazine and The Huffington Post. She is also a monthly guest on morning news show, AM Northwest. She has written for CNN, Time, Forbes, and Fast Company.
Van Edwards teaches popular online courses about body language, facial expression, nonverbal communication and lie detection, all grounded in scientific research. She gave her first TEDx Talk in London in 2017 and appeared on CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose[21].
Van Edwards has conducted a set of experiments on TED talks and presented her research at SXSW in March 2015.
Her lab has also conducted research on the TV Show Shark Tank and analyzed hand gestures in presidential inaugural addresses.
Van Edwards is the author of the books Human Lie Detection and Body Language 101 and Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I'm Grounded with Plume (Penguin USA) under her maiden name, Vanessa Van Petten.