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Reading Someone Like A Book

How to Read a Person Like a Book
Summary

CH 1: Aquiring the skills for reading gestures
- Life situations offer the best tests for the interpretation of gestures
- Gesture clusters: are the groups of nonverbal communications associated with different attitudes. In addition to viewing individual gestures we present the myriad of attitudes expressed by not one gesture, but a series of related ones.
- Gesture clusters can occur at the same time (locking arms and ankles plus making a fist), or one after the other
- When gestures are read subconsciously, only unconscious assumptions about them can be made. We should be able to evaluate most stimuli before reacting to them.
- Sometimes our gestures can precipitate the other persons reactions, or their gestures could only be physical idiosyncrasies. Sometimes gestures have to do with a particular custom, and sometimes they are just repeated because of habit, and mean nothing.
- Don't jump to immediate conclusions based on the......


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