People who are conservative could be less sensitive to the subtle cues in other people's body language than liberals, according to a study.

Great sportspeople are able to 'read' the subtle cues of their opponents, extracting information about their intentions through early-warning signals (postural orientation, tiny alterations in body language, etc).

When participants in a conversation come from different cultural backgrounds they may not recognize these subtle cues in one another's speech, leading to misunderstanding.

Even subtle cues indicating kinship may unconsciously increase altruistic behavior.

Analysis focuses not only on linguistic forms such as words and sentences but also on subtle cues such as prosody and register that signal contextual presupposition.