Finished reading Joe Navarro's "What Every Body is Saying", a book on body language and how to use it to read people as well as display yourself.
I found some concepts pretty useful for gaming or to improve your ability to impress others/ know their intentions so here are some points I think might be helpful:
- Feet are the most "honest" body part. The direction of someone's feet tell you if they feel oriented towards you or would like to literally walk somewhere else (direction of feet point out where they want to be). If, for example, you interject in a two-people-conversation they will turn towards you with their feet if they want to include you but only turn their upper bodies if not.
Feet that point inwards or wrap themselves around a chair leg signal nervosity. Standing cross-legged is a dangerous position (easy to throw you off balance) so it signals you are either comfortable with the person you are with or you deem them to be no threat (good way to appear aloof and project high value).
- Women touching the front of their neck or playing with jewelry are uncomfortable, feel threatened. The same is true for holding books or other items in front of the torso. Men prefer to cross their arms in these situations.
- When people deny knowledge of something they often can be caught lying if they only raise one shoulder in their gesturing. True, subconscious "I don't know" is usually signaled by raising both shoulders and making a facial expression.
- Pointing feet or arms/ thumbs upwards signals self-confidence and happiness. This can be done very subtly by standing with your hands to the side of the body but thumbs pointing up, holding a glass with the thumb up etc. The opposite signal is someone hiding his thumbs in his pockets with the hand hanging out.
- One of the strongest gestures of dominance and self-confidence is forming a "roof" with your hands while mulling things over or sitting in a meeting. The fingertips touch each other pointing upwards almost like praying hands but without the bases of the hands touching.
- The well-established signs of standing straight, not hiding your hands, keeping your chin up etc. are some of the strongest indicators of confidence and high value.
Maybe some of this stuff is already well-known in the game community but a few nuggets were new to me (the roof hands, feet as prime indicators).
I found some concepts pretty useful for gaming or to improve your ability to impress others/ know their intentions so here are some points I think might be helpful:
- Feet are the most "honest" body part. The direction of someone's feet tell you if they feel oriented towards you or would like to literally walk somewhere else (direction of feet point out where they want to be). If, for example, you interject in a two-people-conversation they will turn towards you with their feet if they want to include you but only turn their upper bodies if not.
Feet that point inwards or wrap themselves around a chair leg signal nervosity. Standing cross-legged is a dangerous position (easy to throw you off balance) so it signals you are either comfortable with the person you are with or you deem them to be no threat (good way to appear aloof and project high value).
- Women touching the front of their neck or playing with jewelry are uncomfortable, feel threatened. The same is true for holding books or other items in front of the torso. Men prefer to cross their arms in these situations.
- When people deny knowledge of something they often can be caught lying if they only raise one shoulder in their gesturing. True, subconscious "I don't know" is usually signaled by raising both shoulders and making a facial expression.
- Pointing feet or arms/ thumbs upwards signals self-confidence and happiness. This can be done very subtly by standing with your hands to the side of the body but thumbs pointing up, holding a glass with the thumb up etc. The opposite signal is someone hiding his thumbs in his pockets with the hand hanging out.
- One of the strongest gestures of dominance and self-confidence is forming a "roof" with your hands while mulling things over or sitting in a meeting. The fingertips touch each other pointing upwards almost like praying hands but without the bases of the hands touching.
- The well-established signs of standing straight, not hiding your hands, keeping your chin up etc. are some of the strongest indicators of confidence and high value.
Maybe some of this stuff is already well-known in the game community but a few nuggets were new to me (the roof hands, feet as prime indicators).
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