Body language is the different body signals that we use to communicate one’s feelings and emotions or reactions to what one is experiencing through gestures, postures, facial expressions to name a few. There has been a good amount of research covering body language with emotions and different parts of the body. Incongruency have been studied but not in terms of comfort and discomfort. Thus the present study was done to measure accuracy in detecting incongruence of body language. Thus participants were shown images of congruent comfort and discomfort images and incongruent images. As predicted participants had difficulty in detecting incongruency in body language. The obtained t values were found to be significant.

Keywords : Body Language; Incongruence; Congruence; Comfort and Discomfort