Body Language

as stand-offish. Get too close and you may be perceived as intrusive. Some people like to put objects and distance between thems ...

When your personal space is unavoidably infiltrated, such as in a crowded bus, and touching can’t be escaped, only shoulders and ...

where their guests should sit. The position in which you’re placed reflects your status, and impacts upon people’s perception of ...

Cooperating......................................................................................... When you work on a task wit ...

Keeping to yourself ............................................................................ If two people don’t want to int ...

You can tell a family’s distribution of power by the kind of dining table they have, as long as they were free to choose any sha ...

If you’re extremely dominant, or amongst exceptionally good friends in an informal setting, you can get away with being horizont ...

Short people suffer the indignity of being looked down upon. Because they’re shorter than others, their credibility often gets o ...

Sometimes, lowering yourself can raise your status. When you flop into a chair in someone else’s home in front of the owner who’ ...

Elevating yourself An Olympic gold medallist stands on a podium above the other medal win- ners and the judge sits above his cou ...

212 Part IV: Putting the Body into Social and Business Context ...

Chapter 13 Chapter 13: Dating and Mating ..................................................................................... I ...

214 Part IV: Putting the Body into Social and Business Context Men stand taller, thrust up their chins, and expand their chests, ...

Men aren’t very good at reading the signals properly:Men tend to mis- interpret friendly behaviour for sexual interest because ...

Talk. The man walks over to the woman, making it look as though he’s the ini- tiator, and gives her a few chat-up lines. Having ...

Touch. If a woman’s still interested she’ll seek an opportunity to lightly touch the man’s arm accidentally on purpose, or with ...

Advertisers regularly use this rolling gesture in their campaigns to sell their products. Women want to be like the model and me ...

Facial expressions: Women use lively and animated facial expressions demonstrating interest, vitality, and energy. Men’s expres ...

Canting your head A head tilted to the side gives an appealing and helpless look (see Figure 13-2). By exposing the neck, a vuln ...

Dipping the head One way a woman can make her eyes seem bigger, and herself seem smaller, is to lower her head when she’s lookin ...