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How to See a Man Through His Body Language

Body language is a method of communication in which you express your feeling or

emotion through your body action instead of using verbal language. In terms of

broad sense, body language includes body action and facial expression. However, in a

narrow sense, it just consists of the meaning that your body and all fours express.

It is natural for us to think about many common sorts of body language, when talking

about expressing feeling though body action. For example, you clap when you feel

excited, stamp feet when angry, rub hands when anxious, lower head when

depressed, etc.

Body language as a part of the language, and is an important content of the cultural

exchange and communication, when language communication obstacles and

difficulties, body language can express in the effective time because of the

information and content.

Of course, in different countries and regions, some body language in the cultural field

is interlinked, but because of cultural differences, can also appear many of the same

body language shows different meanings. Under the circumstances, we are supposed

to fully understand the cultural differences of body language, to avoid cultural

differences caused by misunderstanding.

Body language can date from thousands year ago. Philosophers and scientists have

paid interest in body language for thousands of years and they connected human

behaviors with meaning and personality. But those findings are not as sophisticated

and detailed as today. Works about body language were very sparse until mid-1900s.

According to the relevant records, the first expert at study of body language is

ancient Greek, Hippocrates and Aristotle, who explored relationship between human

personalities and behaviors, and Romans, notably Cicero discussed how gestures

work in feelings and communications. Early studies focused on significance of body

language in leadership and communications. Early studies focused on significance of

body language in leadership and government.

Obviously when we think about body language, we call it nonverbals as social

scientists, it is language, so we think about communication. When we think about

communication, we think about interactions. So what is your body language

communicating to me?

What is mine communicating to you?

And there is a lot of reasons to believe that is a valid way to look at this. So scientists

have spent a lot of time looking at the effects of our body language, or other

people's body language, on judgments. And we make sweeping judgments and

inferences from body language. And those judgments can predict really meaningful

life outcomes like who we hire or promote, who we ask out on a date. So when we

think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what

the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced

by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves. We are also influenced by our nonverbals,

our thoughts and our feelings and our physiology.

Jessica Tracy has studied. She shows that people who are born with sight and people

who are congenitally blind do this when they win at a physical competition. So when

they cross the finish line and they've won, it doesn't matter if they've never seen

anyone do it. They do this with the arms up in the V, the chin is slightly lifted. What

do we do when we feel powerless?

We do exactly the opposite. We close up. We wrap ourselves up. We make ourselves

small. We don't want to bump into the person next to us.

Handshake is one of the most important manners in people's social life. People from

different culture and contrary have different habits or norms on handshake. Some

people from southern Europe, Middle and Southern America tend to shake hands

wormer and longer, meaning the left hand usually touches the clasped hands, the

elbow, or even the lapel of the shake, while this kind of handshake represent

provocation or rudeness. Limp handshake is the standard in African countries.

Handshake for people with the same gender from Islamic state shows sincerity and

trust, however, no handshake between different genders. Additionally, meaning of

handshake would be influenced by certain historical events. For example, Soviet

would like to shake hands with two hands firmly for expressing friendly since World

War 2. Former Soviet President Brezhnev shake hands firmly using two hands with

American President Nixon When he visited America. This kind of handshake angered

the American because they thought the Soviet throw contempt on them.

Nod transmits different information at different cultural background. People form