Philosopher Sandra Lee Bartky once observed that being feminine often means using one’s body to portray powerlessness. Consider: A feminine person keeps her body small and contained; she makes sure that it doesn’t take up to much space or impose itself. She walks and sits in tightly packaged ways. She doesn’t cover the …
New research into what men and women look at while they're talking at each other's faces is bolstering the claim that men are more likely to misinterperet non-verbal cues than women, probably because men constantly being distracted by bright objects, kinetic in their peripheral vision.
Body language expert Tonya Reiman stopped by today's GMA to let you in on a secret. Turns out, when it comes to dating, non-verbal signals matter. Did your mind just get blown? Well, piece your brain back together because Tonya "Stop the Presses" Reiman has some advice for using your body to catch a man (assuming, of…
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Ladies, here's the deal: every single thing your partner does has a hidden message. I know this to be true, because I've just spent a good 5 minutes browsing Cosmopolitan's recent articles on decoding your man's body language.
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A study finds that a women's gait changes during the course of her menstrual cycle. Well, I should think so! Anyone who's had to endure wearing a heavy-flow pad could tell you that much. But how do men respond?
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According to psychologist Geoff Beattie, the easiest way to tell if a chick is digging you is by examining her feet. The way women move their feet can indicate sexual attraction, he claims, while men's motions often indicate nerves. [UPI]
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We invited our body language "expert" Tiara Dew Dots to analyze Anna Wintour's body language and facial expressions during her appearance on David Letterman's show last night. Ms. Dots' discoveries, after the jump.
The View may be on hiatus this week, but Sherri Shepherd brought her much-publicized new, thinner body over to Good Morning America today, where she screamed and wiggled around, much to the chagrin of host Chris Cuomo.
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The tabloids are convinced that sparkle vamp Robert Pattinson and costar Kristen Stewart are in love. So is our body language "expert" Tiara Dew Dots. She knows exactly what RPatz and KStew are thinking, based solely on snaps from Comic-Con.
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Dr. Glenn Wilson recently analyzed the body language of 500 drinkers to come up with 8 distinct glass-holding personality types, stating that the way one holds one's glass represents "the person you are." Oh really?
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Psychoanalyst Susie Orbach is giving a whole slew of interviews to promote her new book Bodies. She makes some valid points — and some strange ones — about the relationship between capitalism, pop culture, and the body.
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Nowadays, women can do a lot of things. We can hold high offices, wear trousers, ask men out, drink whiskey in public. What can't we do? Wink. Women winking is always, always inappropriate. Why?
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The April Cosmo goes bar-hopping at some local dives and snaps photos of couples talking to submit them for body language analysis. This guy's body language revealed him to be the biggest player. Click on the pic to see. His face is blurred out, but seriously...
