This post is co-authored by Ron Riggio and nonverbal communication expert Alan Crawley. When and why do we clap? We get startled, and we clap. We try to get our dog’s (or our child’s) attention, and ...
Unprecedented in my multi-decade experience of Handel Messiah concerts, the Dallas Bach Society audience last month started applauding after every aria and chorus. Two weeks later, there was applause ...
March 31, 2011— -- Q: Why do people applaud when planes land? Isn't the pilot just doing his job? I don't expect a round of applause for hitting my quarterly sales goals. And I don't suppose he ...
Spence and Van de Ven declined to take part in football's post-match applause ritual. It is a breach of an unwritten rule but also... fine ...
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., struggled to drum up support amid her remarks about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Wednesday, insisting the audience should clap throughout certain ...
Christina Applegate was met with a standing ovation when she took to the Emmys stage as a presenter. Applegate was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021. The actor, who was nominated for the ...
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris awkwardly encouraged a crowd to clap for President Biden on Monday in her first public appearance since he ended his candidacy for a second term Sunday and ...
Former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush was mocked mercilessly during the 2016 GOP primary for jokingly encouraging his audience to applaud one of his campaign stump lines. “Please clap,” he said in ...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) addressed the House of Representatives on Friday after being reelected as its speaker, in a somewhat dramatic fashion. Johnson prevailed only after two holdouts changed ...
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