What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

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It includes leaning away, turning your feet towards the exit, placing a bag on your lap, placing a bottle in front of you in front of the table, rubbing or closing your eyes, or putting a hand on your face. I think this book would have been better if it were a video series (ex. movie, tv, YouTube). This would provide actual (visual) examples of each social cue described in this book. I think people who struggle with understanding or reading social cues would benefit from this. And there’s a relation between stress and pacifying behavior: the greater the stress or discomfort, the greater the likelihood of pacifying behaviors to follow. Joe Navarro says that the feet are the most “honest” part of the body because they are the first to be engaged in the freeze, flight or fight limbic response. Understanding non-verbal cues is a great talent. You can learn to be aware of the secret signals people reveal by their body language on daily basis. Joe Navarro spent his 25 years of life as an FBI agent specializing in behavioral assessment. After being retired, he wrote many books on body language, and one of the most important books is What Every Body is Saying. What Every Body is Saying Summary Key Points

Also, he recommends that you look at potential employers at an interview as looking all over “as if you owned the place” will unnerve them and make you look superior and disinterested. Arm cues that isolate: Certain arm behavior communicates we need or want distance and people should not come close. This is a fake or “polite smile”: the corners of the mouth move toward the ears and there is little emotion in the eyes.

I can't believe a person can sound so robotic that does this professionally. I had to speed it up just to tolerate his constant rhythm that was not appropriate for how the sentences were worded. Made this very difficult to get through. In other words, we cross our legs in such a way so that we tilt toward the person we favor. This can provide some interesting revelations during family gatherings. Manage sweaty hands: Sweaty hands tend to happen because of nervousness, so they’re a possible sign of nervousness. Eye-gaze behavior: When we look directly at someone’s eyes we either like them, are curious about them, or we want to threaten them.

the person will actually take a step closer to me, which means he or she feels comfortable and/or favorable toward me. I take no offense to the individual’s behavior because I am simply using this opportunity to see how he or she really feels about me. Navarro, Joe (2017) Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History. Scribner. ISBN 978-1501128271 People being scolded; shallow breathing during questioning; shoplifters hiding their presence with arms close to the body and hunching (the “turtle effect”)Preening: Preening yourself is rude when you’re supposed to be listening to someone, especially if done in a self-attentive, dismissive way.