What Every BODY Is Saying : An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed Reading People

INDEX 243

FBI. See Federal Bureau of
Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
2, 178
the feet/legs, 54–55. See also foot
behavior; the legs
children’s movements of, 55
cooperative/noncooperative, 76–78
courtship displays of, 71–74
gravity-defying behaviors of, 63–65
high comfort displays of, 68–71
as honest body part, 53, 55–57
impatience and, 59–60
interlocking of, 81, 81– 83
leg splay with, 65–67
limbic system reaction of, 54–55
movement changes of, 78–80
nonverbal behavior involving, 57–60,
170
shifting away, 60–61, 62, 78
fight response
aggressive survival through, 32–33,
176
of limbic system, 32–34
personal space threats and, 33–34
finger
pointing, 139–41, 14 0
snapping, 140
flashbulb eyes, 179, 180
flight response
distancing nonverbal behaviors of,
31–32
of limbic system, 30–32
threat escape of, 30–31
foot behavior
children and, 55
freeze, 80–81, 82
as intention cue, 61, 62
jiggling/kicking, 79–80
romance and, 72–73

forehead

furrowed, 168, 195–97, 196

rubbing, 40

“A Four-Domain Model of Detecting

Deception: An Alternative

Paradigm for Interviewing,” 209

Frank, Mark G., 230

freeze response

arm behavior as, 112

foot behavior and, 80–81, 82

of limbic system, 26–29, 158

frozen hands, 157

genital framing, 155–56, 156

gestures. See also microgestures

disgust, 200–201

nose-up, 202, 202–3

offensive hand, 139–41

powerful hand, 135

travel knowing acceptable, 200

Gestures: The Do’s and Taboos of Body

Language Around the World

(Axtell), 140

The Gift of Fear (Becker), 36

Gottman, John, 193

gravity-defying behaviors

of arms, 110 –11

of face, 202–3

of feet/legs, 63–65

gravity-related movements, 110–11

“guilty knowledge,” 209, 221–22

Hall, Edward, 68

hand displays

arms restrained and, 157

of high confidence, 147–50