Doesn't matter whether she is interested in you, you'll make her interested eventually anyway But look for these signs to show you whether you're already making progress It's also fun to look for these signs as a by-stander, either in everyday situations or for example in a bar - when the guy earnestly believes he is being sooo smooth but the woman he is talking to isn't displaying any of the signs presented below, you can't help but have a chuckle about it.
Her lips: Big smiles with upper and lower teeth showing with a relaxed face. Biting of the lips or showing of the tongue, licking her lips or touching of her front teeth. She wets her lips, some women use only a single-lip lick, wetting the upper or lower lip, while others run the tongue around the entire lip area. She puts her fingernail between her teeth. She protrudes her lips and thrust her breasts forward.
Her eyes: She gazes in your eyes with deep interest and her pupils are dilated. She raises both eyebrows exaggeratedly for a couple of seconds, this is often combined with a smile and some eye contact. She winks at you while talking to you or winks at you from a distance While talking to you, she blinks more than usual, fluttering her eyelashes. Eyebrows raised and then lowered, then a smile indicates interest in you.
Her hair: She twirls her hair around her fingers while she is looking at you. She is throwing her hair back off her shoulders.
Her clothing: If she is wearing clothes that show her nipples underneath and you notice they are getting perky and erect. The hem goes up to expose a little more leg. She is fixing, patting or smoothing her outfit to make herself look better.
While she is seated: She moves in time to the music, with her eyes on you. She starts sitting straight up and her muscles appear to be firm. She is sitting with her legs open. She sits with her legs crossed in a manner to reveal her thigh. Her legs are rubbing against each other. Her legs are rubbing against the leg of the table. Her crossed leg is pointed towards you or if that same leg is rocking back and forth towards you.
Her hands: She exposes the palms of her hand facing you. While talking to you, she rests an elbow in the palm of one hand, while holding out her other hand, palm up. She rubs her wrists up and down. She sits with one hand touching one of her breasts. The rubs her chins or touches her cheek. This indicates that she's thinking about you and her relating in some way She is fondling keys, sliding hands up and down a glass, playing with toys or other things on the table. She plays with her jewellery, especially with stroking and pulling motions. the touches your arm, shoulder, thigh, or hand while talking to you (in case you already haven't started kino yourself, dumbass. She is pretending to look at her watch as youpass her.
Her voice: She raises or lowers the volume of her voice to match yours. She speeds up or slows down her speaking to match yours. She laughs in unison with you.
Micellaneous: She mirrors your body language and body positions. Her skin tone becomes red while being around you. She blows smoke straight out from between her lips and toward you. She leans over and speaks into her friend's ear, just like in junior high school.
She is standing with her head cocked slightly at an angle, one foot behind the other, hips slightly thrust forward.
At a party - every once in a while she seems to appear out of nowhere in your vicinity and if you move to another spot, soon she appears out of nowhere again, you catch her glancing in your general direction (actually, glancing at YOU dummy!, she bumps into you? accidentally, touches you? accidentally etc
When talking to a girl, these are some of the more important signs to watch for: Can you keep conversation going with her? Does she react well to kino? Does she touch you? Does she laugh? Now I don't have to explain what the answer "yes" to these questions means, do I? From "Sweep women off their feet...": "All these signs usually tell you that the girl is captivated by your charms. But before you get there, chances are that her body language changes as the discussion progresses. Make sure that you watch her closely and as soon as you get a sign that should be an indication that you are on the right track, keep going in that direction. If the opposite happens, just change the subject and see what happens."
The really gorgeous and beautiful girls however very seldom get around to displaying the signs of interest described above. They simply don't have to, as they are used to getting some attention already long before that. With such girls you have to be on a lookout for the initial and thus much more subtle signs of interest. One example of this would be a gorgeous girl simply looking at your face. Obviously people tend to look at what or whom they like to look at. But whereas an average girl first just looks at your face and then progresses into the more overt signs of interest described above, looking at your face from time to time might be the only sign of interest you'll ever get from the most beautiful of girls. So if you think you're not getting any signs of interest from beautiful girls - you are, but you just can't see them well enough yet.
Don Steele: "Here are signs of interest sent from across the room. Most are applicable to both sexes. The sequence of the list approximates the courtship sequence.
The study of the communicative aspects of personal space and territory is called proxemics. Everyone is surrounded by an invisible zone of psychological comfort that follows us everywhere we travel. This protective bubble acts as a buffer zone against unwanted touching and attacks. Our comfort zone varies depending on who we are talking to and the situation that we are in. The amount of space that we use while interacting with others can play a significant factor in the type of interaction we have with that person.
Why Is Proxemics Important For A Negotiation?
Proxemics gives a lot of nonverbal information to the other person regarding the level of trust and intimacy that the person has for them. As cooperation is a key factor in Street Negotiation, you must be able to read their level of comfort with you by the amount of distance that they are comfortable dealing with you at. Your goal in a negotiation is to gain their cooperation and by knowing how personal space is internally regulated, you can foster better communication and cooperative behavior from your counterpart. Knowing the dynamics of personal space will also prevent you from unknowingly violating your counterpart's personal space and causing unnecessary tension.
What Is Our Comfort Zone?
In 1959, anthropologist Edward Hall discovered that humans are distinctly aware of our perception of space and territory and he conducted numerous studies and experiments in which he concluded that United States Americans had four distinct comfort distances, each with their own specific ranges of comfort, and that these distances were surprisingly universal to most Americans. He also noted that comfort zones varied drastically between cultures. The four distances of personal territory for U.S. Americans are:
0'18 inches. Intimate distance. Reserved for deep personal relationships. Vision is impaired at this level and the main senses used are smell and touch. This distance is used for sexual contact or comforting someone.
18 inches'4 feet. Personal distance. Reserved for personal conversation. This is distance is used for having personal conversations with friends, family, or associates.
4 feet'12 feet. Social distance. Reserved for formal interactions such as business meetings or interviews.
12 feet?line of sight. Public distance. Reserved for such things as public speaking and lectures.
Note: These distances apply only to those interactions where the participants? orientation is face-to-face with each other and are aware of each other's presence.
Violating Personal Space Is Threatening
The territorial space that people claim as distinctly belonging to them is their personal space (4 feet). When someone who has not yet gained our trust enters our personal space, we tend to feel uncomfortable or even threatened because the intruder has trespassed onto our own space. This is much the same way as if a stranger walked into the backyard of your home without your permission. Entering someone's personal distance without first establishing some level of trust can cause conflict and defensiveness to occur. When a violation of space occurs, it causes the other person to become uncomfortable and instinctively they will move themselves away from the person to regain the correct level of personal territory. You'll want to pay attention to this behavior because it is a sure indication that you have intruded upon their comfort zone.Police officers are sometimes trained in the technique of deliberately invading the personal space of their suspect during an interview to make the suspect feel uncomfortable and intimidating him into giving up information.
Proximity Separates The Strong From The Weak
Our social use for space can tell us a lot about the status, confidence, and power of the people around us. Just look at your own work place and examine who has the biggest office and who commands the most space while walking around.
The people who possess the most power and authority command a greater amount of personal space that they can call their own. They will often distance themselves from other people around them. In the workplace, the ?important? top-dog might have their own corner office apart from the rest of the workers who might be scrunched together in cubicles.
Confident people and people of higher status are comfortable going straight to the center of the attention while lower status or non-confident people tend to hover near the exits or the back of the room. University studies have shown that the students who sit front and center of the classroom received the highest grades in the class, while those who sat in the back and at the corner's of the room received the worst grades.
The goal is to approach as close as you can to the other person without making them feel uncomfortable. This will facilitate better rapport between both parties.
Are They Using Barriers?
Any inanimate object that is placed between you and the person you are talking with is an indication of defensiveness. A table, desk, pillows, drinking glass etc. that is set between you and the other person is an unconscious equivalent of shielding our body from attack and provides us with a level of emotional comfort from something that we do not like. A person who creates barriers between themselves and the other person is usually expressing deception, defensiveness, or ulterior motives.
Using Proxemics For Emotional Emphasis
Proxemics can be used in combination with other behaviors to add emphasis to the message. For example, if a person is angry with you and they invade your intimate space, then the perceived threat of their anger is dramatically increased if compared with the same person being angry with you from across the room. If a couple are in love and they are maintaining eye contact with each other from across a room, then the impact of that eye contact is much less meaningful than if they were inches from each other.
Where Should I Sit?
Side-by-side fosters cooperation. If you are trying to facilitate cooperation, then the best place for you to sit is by their side (i.e. to their right or left). By sitting to their side, we enhance cooperative behavior from them by conveying that we are not competing against them. It also points both of you towards the direction of the problem that exists, such as a report on the table, or research material that needs organizing.
Opposite sides fosters competition. Sitting directly across from someone, such as an employer sitting direct across from a prospective applicant with a table in between them, tends to foster a competing-type attitude.
Sit at 90? for good conversation. The best seating position at a table for a cooperative exchange of information is at the corner of the table. One person takes one side of the corner and the other person takes the other side. The benefits of this position are that: (1) It allows for both parties to enter into each other's personal space, creating a stronger bond than if they remained distant from each other. (2) It breaks up the stuffy formalness of the situation by moving you closer to them. The corner of the table adds a bit of psychological security for both parties by having a bit of a barrier between them, but it is not as much of a barrier as if you sat opposite one another.
Gender differences. A study done by Byrne and Fisher (1975) showed that American men generally chose to sit across from people who they considered their friends and American women chose to sit adjacent to the people that they considered to be their friends. Additionally, the study showed that men did not like strangers sitting across from them and women did not like having strangers sitting next to them.
Key Points
--Proxemics is the study of the communicative aspects of space.
--Entering one's personal space can cause them to feel threatened.
--Sitting side-by-side fosters cooperation. Sitting opposite one another fosters competition. Sitting 90? to each other fosters conversation.
--Using inanimate objects as barriers is a sign of anxiety, defensiveness, or deception.
--Approach as close as you can to the other person without making them feel uncomfortable. This will increase your rapport.
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