Casasanto Argumentative Essay

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Growing up in South Florida speaking with your hands is something very common, and it becomes something that goes unnoticed in most circumstances. So this week when reading Casasanto article I looked more into his other article "Good and Bad in the Hands of Politicians: Spontaneous Gestures during Positive and Negative Speech". I would never have thought that emotion could be projected as a hand gesture, and that depending on which hand you are dominant in would mean whether the emotion to convey would be positive or negative.

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