PSYC18H3 Chapter 4: Book/ Chapter 4
Document Summary
To document how people flirt, givens and perper. What they discovered was a layered and varied language by which women and men negotiate romantic inclinations. In the initial attention-getting phase, men roll their shoulders and raise their arms with exaggerated gestures that allow them to show off potential signs of their social status their well-developed arms or flashy watches. At the same time, women smile coyly, they look askance, they flick their hair, and walk with an arched back and swaying hips. In the recognition phase, women and men gaze intently at each other, they express interest with raised eyebrows, sing- song voice, melodious laughter, and subtle lip puckers. Finally, in the keeping-time phase, the potential partners mirror each other"s glances, laughter, gaze, and posture, to assess their interest in one another. Often single words like smile fail adequately to describe the language of nonverbal communication.
