A little finger experiment

We decided to have a small experiment. Eight lecturers were asked to use three hand gestures during ten-minute speeches to different audiences. We later fixed the attitude of the audience to the speakers. We found out that the lecturers, who mostly used hand gestures, palm up, aroused sympathy from 84% of the audience. Those who turned the hand palm down, were cute 52% of the audience. The lecturers who used pointing gestures least liked it. Only 28% of students sympathized with them. Some even left the audience during the performance of such speakers.
The index finger causes negative feelings in most listeners.
The index finger does not only evoke the least amount of positive emotions. People are much worse assimilated information, accompanied by a similar gesture. If this gesture is familiar to you, try replacing it with your palm up or down, and you will immediately notice that others will treat your words more calmly and positively. If you press your fingers to your thumb, as if in an “OK” gesture, and accompany your speech with such a gesture, you will be considered authoritative, but not aggressive. We taught a number of speakers, politicians and businessmen to this gesture, and then we evaluated the audience’s reaction to their speeches. The speakers, who used such gestures, were called “thinking,” “purposeful,” and “focused.”
Combining fingers in an "OK" gesture, you do not intimidate the listeners.
Those who used pointing gestures, the same listeners called “aggressive”, “arrogant” and “rude”. It is not surprising that the information contained in such speeches, almost eluded the audience. When the speaker points his finger directly at the listeners, they focus on their own negative feelings towards him, and not on what he is talking about.