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Originally Posted by Plane
So if someone had say, skill 9 in either of these, I'm wondering when you could apply psychology and when you could only apply body language.
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Body Language lets you determine an individual's feelings and lets you determine what a friend is about to do. Psychology lets you determine a general notion about what someone is about to do, whether an individual or a small group, and is specialized by race.
My feeling is that Body Language only requires a few moments of visual contact, while Psychology requires some insight into the subject, whether it's what they say or what they're doing. Someone sitting across the table from someone who's about to attack them could use Body Language to determine that the person is enraged or Psychology to analyze the direction the conversation is taking and realize the other person is about to go berserk because of it. Body Language would be useless against an invisible opponent, and Psychology would be useless if the subject had only been observed standing around for a bit, but the two would work well in the reverse situations.