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Why I think men are more comfortable than women offering personal data to brands. Expert in Gender Differences Patti Wood

A survey was to find out how comfortable people are sharing
their personal data to improve their customer experience in
various sectors. Across the board, we found men were more likely
than women to say they are 'extremely comfortable' sharing
personal data. For example, 36% of men said they're extremely
comfortable sharing personal data with a takeaway service,
compared to 19% of women, and 36% were extremely comfortable
sharing personal data with hotels, compared to just 18% of women.

As an expert in gender behavior to provide a

This is why I think men are more
comfortable than women offering personal data to brands.

As someone who has spoken and written about gender differences for decades, I believe one of the most basic differences is that males, starting when they are small boys tend to play move and express outwards. Think of boys running with toy airplanes and rocket ships and cars moving through space with the bodies, making loud noises. And females stereotypically as girls starting at about age 5 move less, take up less space as they play and make less noise as they play.

We know that people that have power of expand take up more space have more open body language while people with less power and status tend to contract, close off the entrances to their body with their limbs and overall take up less space. Less powerful people, historically woman would there for share less information/ make less noise/ close off more of themselves with strangers.

Called the “Gold Standard” of Body Language by the Washington Post and credited in the New York Times for bringing the topic to national attention Patti Wood, is a true expert. She creates high energy interactive programs, filled with humor, cutting edge information and valuable “Take Aways.” She is the author of nine books and she speaks and consults to Fortune 500 companies and associations. You see her on National TV shows like Good Morning America, CNN and FOX news, The History Channel and the Today Show. She is quoted every week in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Bloomberg Business Week, Fortune, Good Housekeeping, and USA Today.

Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.

How to Improve Your Ability To Read People and Form Accurate First Impressions.

I teach my clients to improve their intuitive ability by noting body language and first impressions. For example, I share my “What is the first thing you notice when you meet somebody?” They partner with each other and share their answers. Remarkably, class after class, year after year, they say, : trustworthy, credible, authentic, honest, integrity. Our primitive limbic brain picks up on nonverbal cues that help us “read” people. We can improve that intuitive read by consciously noting what are read of someone is and attaching words to our read, “Safe” “Not sage” “Be careful” “Doesn’t seem authentic” and then when we finish interacting with them in a single interaction even writing down our read and checking back later to see if we were accurate. Research shows that Judges tend to be more accurate at telling someone is lying because they have an intuitive first impression and at the conclusion of the court case they have a check/finding on their read. I tell my audiences in my body language classes and my DiSC and Myers Briggs Communication Style training to implement a new step in entering their contacts into their phones and or other contact software. After the first meeting, phone or zoom call to put their own personal code words and or specific cues they noticed to state their first impression read and type of the person and then go back and see how accurate they are.

New Soft Skills To Consider When Hiring in the Post Covid 19 Employment World

I am an expert on Nonverbal Communication/First Impressions and Interviewing.

The transferrable soft
Skill in 5 words or less.

Make a Great First Impression "Above the Mask"

2. Why this skill is especially
Important & attractive during these turbulent times Being able to present as safe and friendly is essential to front line workers who serve customers.

An example of how a candidate demonstrated this to you during the
Job application process. I have my clients put on a mask even when they do Zoom/video platform job interviews if they are hiring front-line workers and asking the applicant to do the same. I have observed an applicant who did a great job at leaning forward, smiling above the mask, and matching and mirroring body language and paralanguage cues. (voice tone tempo etc.)

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First impression/Zoom Box Impression.
This is often the way that they will be communicating now. Do they have a Zoom Box impression that looks professional? Does it show they took time and care about their environments, such as not having a messy kitchen or distractions and noise in the background? Do they have the camera aimed correctly? Are they dressed and sitting professionally, and do they score possibility on the Four First Impression Factors of Credibility LIkeablity, Attractiveness, and Power. I have a chart of the factors that they should look for in a Zoom box impression so they can rate them on three point scale. If they like the candidate but they didn’t like their Zoom box impression the chart gives them a way to approach a conversation with them before they hire them to see if they can improve their impression.

Take Care,

Trump's Office and Desk, Body Language Expert Patti Wood analyzes Trump's Office and desk

Mr. Trump’s office at his home in the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, is, a monument to his presidency.

The former president is pictured sitting behind an imitation. replica of the Resolute Desk that most commanders-in-chief use in the Oval Office. Specifically, it's a $3,600 Telluride Wood Executive Desk from Hooker Furniture. His chair is highbacked and throne-like brought from his Trump Tower office in New York to the oval office and now it's here in his post-presidency office.

Placed on a side table beside a gilded lamp is a small brass statue of Trump himself. I don’t know anyone who has a statue of themselves in their office.

On the walls on either side of the shuttered doors are two framed photographs. One is an unremarkable picture of Air Force One flying over the White House; the other is of Marine One, with the president aboard, hovering in front of Mount Rushmore before he gave a speech there on 4 July 2020.

On the front right corner of Trump’s desk sits a plaque commemorating the wall he promised to build on the US-Mexico border. made from a piece of the wall at the southern border and was presented to Mr. Trump by US Border Patrol in 2019. Trump promised a “big beautiful wall” that covered the length of the border, approximately 2,000 miles of concrete wall on the US/Mexico border, He was practically elected on that pledge. In reality, only 80 miles of new wall were built during his time in office and some steel fencing.

On the wall are pictures showing Air Force One banking over the White House and Marine One, the president’s helicopter, flying past Mount Rushmore, which commemorates the most significant Presidents in America's first 150 years since independence.

Mr. Trump also has a number of military challenge coins which he brought from the Oval Office. The coins have been used as gifts to foreign dignitaries and American soldiers since Bill Clinton first did so when he was president in the 1990s.

Tucked behind a desk phone stands a bottle of Diet Coke, though Mr Trump is leading calls for a boycott of Coca-Cola following the company’s criticism of Georgia’s strict new electoral laws that threaten to disenfranchise many in the state. (it was once reported that he goes through 12 a day),

There was also some speculation from one Twitter user as to the location of the former president’s new office with the suggestion that it was in a hotel room at the Mar-a-Lago resort given the style of the carpet. The side tables are usually low and are similar to the nightstands in the luxury suites to be nightstands.

I noticed that instead of being on the desk facing towards them so he can see them and enjoy them he has dozen or so photographs on a table behind him, all lined up like as if they’re at a rally. There is his late father, Fred; his children, Eric, Ivanka and Don Jr in London; he and Barron in New York; his late mother, Mary, an oddly cropped headshot of his wife, Melania. I have analyzed and consulted on offices and I have never seen photos placed behind the desk like that. On a few occasions, an overflow of photos are on a side desk but still in view. Here they seem like a sign of status that he has a family.

Why Is Scent Important to Mate Selection?

Years ago I consulted with the producers of a reality TV show where people would select "Mate"  (This was before the bachelor and other shows became popular.) They used one of my ideas in their show and had the women smell the sweaty t-shirts of the guys to choose the best smelling guy for them to date. 

In my book SNAP Making the Most of First Impressions Body Language and Charisma, I share insights on the four first impression factors—credibility, Likeability, attractiveness, and power. I discuss the various aspects of attractiveness including smell and today I contributed to a magazine article on smell and attractiveness. 

Looking for the right smell in your future mate is so interesting because there is a scientific explanation for its importance—the right "scent" is wired to the limbic system. We want mates that would make good babies! 

The theory is that women are more attracted to the scent of men who have immune genes that differ from their own so that if they have children, the babies would be more protected from disease. Specifically, women sniff for men's Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) which is the group of genes that affect the immune system. 

So now you know one of the reasons you want your guy to smell good!   And if you are a gal who has ever asked for a T-shirt from your boyfriend now you know why, and yes I have done that!!!

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