How To Read A Person Like A Book

How To Read A Person Like A

Book

This Book is a handbook of types of nonverbal communication that will give you insights into the significance of gestures — factors of ordinary experiences that are all too often only vaguely understood, if not entirely ignored.

The material has been arranged so that the parts make up a meaningful whole: the gestures making clusters of gestures that make up attitudes dealing with relationships involved in life situations. We hope we have added an important tool in the continuing search for a way to make man better understood by his fellow men and to promote understanding among all men. The process of communication, which continues to confound us, will be enhanced by the understanding and analysis of gestures.

Our function as human beings is to increase our expertise and to become so human that we see

ourselves in all other people.

CONTENTS

1. ACQUIRING THE SKILLS FOR

READING GESTURES

Life, the True Testing Ground

Gestures Come in Clusters

How You Can Benefit by Understanding Gestures

2. MATERIALS FOR GESTURE-READING

Facial Expressions

Walking Gestures

Shaking Hands

3. OPENNESS, DEFENSIVENESS,

EVALUATION, SUSPICION

Openness

Defensiveness

Evaluation

Suspicion and Secretiveness

4. READINESS, REASSURANCE,

COOPERATION, FRUSTRATION

Readiness

Reassurance

Cooperation

Frustration

5. CONFIDENCE, NERVOUSNESS, SELF-CONTROL

Confidence

Nervousness

Self-Control

6. BOREDOM, ACCEPTANCE, COURTSHIP, EXPECTANCY

Boredom

Acceptance

Courtship

Expectancy

7. RELATIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES

Parent and Child

Lovers

Strangers

Superior and Subordinate

Client and Professional

Buyer and Seller

8. UNDERSTANDING IN AN

ENVIRONMENT

Gestures without an Audience: Telephoning

The Courtroom

Social Gatherings