For thousands of years, people across cultures have attempted to interpret personality, emotional tendencies, and social traits through physical posture and movement. Whether one observes a confident stride, a hesitant step, an upright posture, or a slouched stance, humans are naturally inclined to form impressions—sometimes accurate, sometimes symbolic, and sometimes completely mythical.
This tendency appears in art, literature, anthropology, psychology, and even contemporary entertainment media. What we now call “body language interpretation” blends science, social psychology, cultural symbolism, and imaginative storytelling.
