Body Language Flirt and Lying

Body Language

Body language is a kind of non verbal communication, where thoughts, intentions, or feelings are expressed by physical behaviors, such as facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space. Body language exists in both animals and humans, but this article focuses on interpretations of human body language. Body language does not have a grammar and must be interpreted broadly, instead of having an absolute meaning corresponding with a certain movement, so it is not a language like sign language, It helps to establish the relationship between two people and regulates interaction, but can be ambiguous. Hence, it is crucial to accurately read body language to avoid misunderstanding in social interactions. Let’s discuss about the signs of attraction and telling lies, as they are two contradictory though fundamental parts of our life.

Signs of attraction

Shall we start with female behavior? The one of the first gestures used by women during flirtation, playing with their hair.  Usually, they will flick their hair backwards over their shoulder or move it to the side with their hand as a way to display the face better, even if the woman only has short hair.  Apart from emphasizing their delicate facial features by flicking their hair, women do this gesture because it allows them to lift up their arm and in the process expose their arm pit where the pheromone scent is released for the male to smell it.  Furthermore, there are certain vulnerable spots in our bodies due to their fragility or delicacy that we tend to protect: our neck, throat and wrist being some of them. When women are interested in men they will slowly start showing him glimpses of their wrists and the more they like them the longer the glimpses will last - this is why the wrist has always been considered a highly erotic area as women have more nerve receptors there making it more sensitive, which is where applying perfume on the wrists comes from. Finally, when women or men feel interest in someone they will start pointing at them either with their feet (usually their lead walking foot or both) while standing, or their knee while sitting.  How a person’s shows interest in another when sitting down is achieved by tucking one leg under the other - the tucked-under-legs knee will be pointing towards the direction of the person they feel attracted to.

Observing men's body language to see their patterns of flirting gestures wasn't as appealing as watching women's for some reason.  Men don't appear to have as many flirting signs - perhaps this could be due to their stiff nature where their bodies aren't as flexible. Guys understand that they have to be more sensitive when in the dating game. Observe whether the man has large large pupils, whether he starts preening himself by fixing his hair, tie, collar or socks, if he tilts his head sideways to appear friendly and non dominant, if he begins mirroring you by copying your body language or asking what you're going to eat to order the same - as well as if he is constantly looking at your mouth. He may also stop slouching to appear taller not only because he wants to appear larger but when men or women are interested in something/someone or are happy, their backs will straighten upwards.