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Showing posts with label nonverbal behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nonverbal behavior. Show all posts

Do You Tug? Constant Tugging on Your Shirt?



Here is a fun article about nonverbal behavior. It’s the little movement of tugging on your shirt that’s a combination of “primping” behavior like a woman adjusting her necklace or pushing her hair back and is also a comfort/stress cue. The reality is that the shirt is too small and you feel the need to loosen it but it also communicates your desire to look better and comfort yourself when you’re feeling bad about having a bigger belly. Notice this juzzing behavior today! Do you tug? 





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What Makes Someone Look Powerful?

What makes someone look powerful? A distinctive pattern of nonverbal behaviors characterizes high-status persons. A recent meta-analysis ( a study of many research studies) shows these three factors.

• facial expressiveness,
• greater bodily openness (what I refer to as open body windows)
• smaller interpersonal distances (that is high status people approach others at closer distances.) Think about it this way - a boss, by virtue of their status can come into your cubical and interact closely. A lower status person might stand outside the cubical and ask to enter and stand further away. Powerful people come in and interact closely as behaviors that are characteristic of higher status persons (Hall, Coats, & LeBeau, 2005)

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at http://PattiWood.net. Also check out the body language quiz on her YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.