| All the examples and explanations on this page are from the book How to Read a Person Like a Book, by Gerard I. Nierenberg & Henry H. Calero (New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1971). |
| These 3 pictures represent the same salesman calling three different people: his wife, his mistress, and one of his customers. Can you tell which is which? — and why? |
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| In each drawing below, can you identify which man is the boss of the other men or man? — and why? | |
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| Which emotion are these people expressing with their bodies — and what makes you think so? | |
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Hostility Suspicion |
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Impatience Confidence |
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Excitement Exhaustion |
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Denial Anger |
| REVIEW — How would you interpret each pair of bodily texts in the group below? What is each body "saying"? — especially in dialogue with the other person's body? | ||
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| FINAL EXAM — If you were a guy at a party, looking to meet someone new, how would you read each of the girls below? which ones would you go over to talk to? which would you avoid? | ||||
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