Body Language

The closed-lip grin.............................................................................. The closed-lip grin is a restr ...

passages. Some land in your chest and all that escapes are little bits of blow- ing air pushing through your nose like short tru ...

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In this part... H ere I travel down the body visiting the parts whose movements reflect inner states and create impres- sions. H ...

Chapter 7 Chapter 7: Take It From the Torso................................................................................ In T ...

Keep watching people pass by and notice how the ones who don’t seem com- fortable with themselves move. Their heads are probably ...

Evaluating what your own posture says about you....................... If you spend too much time slouching with a deadpan expre ...

Turn away for a moment. This time decide how you want to be perceived. Dominant, submissive, bored, angry, surprised? The list ...

your feelings are intense it’s like putting an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence. Intensity calls attention to itself. F ...

cheered and clapped. Roddick’s camp, on the other hand, dejectedly sat down and backwards in their seats and let out a little gr ...

Revealing personality and character ............................................... Are you King of the Jungle or Misty Milk Mai ...

If your character has some aspects that you don’t like, change your attitude. As your attitude changes so do your actions. Three ...

Participants at meetings frequently stand. The reason for this is that people think more quickly and come to decisions more expe ...

The sitting erect position shows that you’re focused in the here and now and that you’re ready to take a decision or progress an ...

A bouquet of your favourite flowers A lover Someone you don’t like but have to go through this gesture with regardless You ma ...

What I amsaying is that you can tell a lot about people’s mood, attitude, and state of mind by observing how they hold their bod ...

The next time you’re at an event where people are informally standing and talk- ing in groups, watch the body language to discov ...

If you carefully observe a group of individuals interacting you can tell their degree of attention, involvement, relative status ...

Signalling lack of knowledge ............................................................. You’re at your first meeting of the d ...