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Published online 28 January 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/457528a

Behavioural Science: Secret signals

Are people's interactions driven by a primitive, non-linguistic type of communication? Mark Buchanan looks at how modern technology can reveal the basis of our powers of persuasion.

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