The Definitive Book of Body Language

Arm Signals Flower grasping shows self-consciousness The Coffee Cup Barrier Offering a refreshment during a negotiation is an ex ...

The Definitive Book of Body Language Sitting with your elbows on the armrest of a chair is a position of power and conveys a str ...

Arm Signals tary bond between two people. When we replicated this exper- iment for a television programme, we found the coin ret ...

The Definitive Book of Body Language library offered. Those who had been touched responded more favourably to all questions aske ...

Chapter 5 CULTURAL DIFFERENCES How would a Brit, a German or an American interpret this gesture? Imagine this scene - you are in ...

The Definitive Book of Body Language and you step to your left, they step to their right. Wearing sun- glasses in foreign countr ...

Cultural Differences G H K L M N O For each correct answer you got, allocate yourself one point. A. Europe and North America: OK ...

The Definitive Book of Body Language D. Europe: Three Catholic countries: A blessing E. Europe: Two Britain, Australia, New Zeal ...

Cultural Differences Greece: Up yours! (thrust forward) Japan: Man; five M.. Hawaii: 'Hang loose' Holland: Do you want a drink? ...

The Definitive Book of Body Language children in every country that has television now wear baseball caps backwards and shout 'H ...

lated from the rest of the world. He recorded the same results, the exception being that, like the Japanese, these cultures coul ...

When One Culture Encounters Another When Italians talk they keep their hands held high as a way of holding the floor in a conver ...

Cultural Differences arm touching during an Italian conversation is nothing more than a way of stopping the listener from raisin ...

Henry VIII popularised this gesture as a high-status signal because of his small mouth and modern Brits and Americans still use ...

Cultural Differences In Japan, make sure your shoes are spotlessly clean and in good condition. Every time a Japanese bows, he i ...

The Definitive Book of Body Language spread tuberculosis around, so people were as alarmed by that prospect as they would be if ...

Cultural Differences 'OK' to a Westerner, 'money' to a Japanese, 'zero' to the French and insulting to the Turks and Brazilians ...

Never hitch-hike in Greece. As we have already demonstrated, when Europeans count from one to five, they use the Thumb-Up to mea ...

This can mean 'two' to an American, 'Victory' to a German and 'Up yours' in Britain Its origin can be traced back centuries to t ...

The Definitive Book of Body Language response could be to give an Englishman, American or Aus- tralian two mugs of beer. To Touc ...