What Every BODY Is Saying_Navarro, Joe & Karlins, Marvin

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 27 tors, but some even play dead, which is the ultimate freeze reaction. This is a strategy that opossu ...

28 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING BOX 8: THE NIGHT THE HANDS STOPPED MOVING I was at my mother’s house a few weeks ago watching telev ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 29 often had to tell an interviewee to relax and take a deep breath during the middle of an interview o ...

30 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING The Flight Response One purpose of the freeze response is to avoid detection by dangerous predators ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 31 rected our body to adopt this tactic judiciously over millennia in order to escape from danger. In o ...

32 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING haviors that tell you the businessperson is unhappy with what is occur- ring at the table. The Figh ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 33 world, however, acting on our rage may not be practical or even legal, so the limbic brain has devel ...

34 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING or by violating another’s personal space. Threats to our personal space elicit a limbic response on ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 35 ber experiences from our past encounters and build upon them (see box 9). Thus far we have seen how ...

36 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING BOX 9: A BRAIN THAT DOESN’T FORGET The limbic brain is like a computer that receives and retains da ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 37 (pacifying) behaviors. Since these are outward signals that can be read in real time, we can observe ...

38 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING BOX 10: CAPTURED IN THE NECK OF TIME Neck touching and/or stroking is one of the most significant a ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 39 discomfort in lying to the police about her fugitive son caused her limbic system to generate a paci ...

Rubbing of the forehead is usually a good indicator that a person is struggling with something or is undergoing slight to severe ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 41 with puffed cheeks to calm ourselves (see figures 10 and 11). If a stressed person is a smoker, he o ...

42 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING reality he is calming his nervousness by drawing his arm across his body and giving his hands somet ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 43 Over the decades that I have studied nonverbal behaviors, I have ob- served that there are gender di ...

44 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING BOX 11: THE PACIFYING PENDULUM Watch a couple as they converse at a table. If the woman begins to p ...

LIVING OUR LIMBIC LEGACY 45 Pacifying Behaviors Involving the Face Touching or stroking the face is a frequent human pacifying r ...

46 WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYING The Leg Cleanser Leg cleansing is one pacification behavior that often goes unnoticed be- cause it ...