The Definitive Book of Body Language
interest in her, a woman will step into his Intimate Zone and
then step back out again. If he's interested, this cues him to
step into her space whenever he makes a point.
The closer people feel emotionally to each other
the closer they will stand to each other.What seemed to the Italian couple to be a perfectly normal
social encounter was being interpreted by the Australians as a
sexual advance. The Italians thought the Australians were
being cold and unfriendly because they kept moving away
from the Italians to keep a comfortable distance.
The acceptable conversational
distance for most Western,
Northern European and
Scandinavian city dwellersA man with a smaller spatial need
forcing a woman to lean back to
defend her space