Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship

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Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship (Reprint) Pub. Date: 1/10/2006 Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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A world renowned anthropologist explores the nonverbal signs, signals, and cues human beings exchange to attract and keep their mates. As a medium of communication, Love's silent language predates speech by millions of years. Today, we still express emotions and feelings largely apart from words. The postures, gestures, and facial cues of attraction are universal, in all societies and cultures.

According to Dr. Givens, courtship moves slowly though five distinct phases: attracting attention, recognition phase, conversation phase, touching phase, making love. Since potential mates "test" each other before uniting as one, courtship is a choreographed give and take of signs granting physical and emotional closeness.

Love Signals is part enthnography and part how-to. Dr. Givens documents the little courting rituals witnessed in elevators, on subways, and in the workplace. He examines the essential role the face plays in courtship and how it can be optimally displayed. He decodes the body to find silent messages given off by shoulders, neck, arms, hands, waist, calves, ankles, feet, and toes. Dr. Givens analyzes expressive shapes, colors, and markings encoded in arm wear, shoulder wear, leg wear, and shoes. He deciphers the background messages of spaces, places and interiors to learn how environs help or hinder in the meeting process. Chemical cues emanating from aromas, tastes, steroids, sterols, and hormones strongly shape a partner's feelings, so they are explored as well.

The book suggests ways to gaze, ways to read eyes across a room, and ways to sit, stand, align, walk dress, and lift a drink to participate in the fascinating adventure of finding, winning, and keeping a mate. Knowing the unspoken vocabulary of love signals will give readers an edge. What this means for courtship is that the reader becomes able to read unspoken motives, emotions, and feelings with great clarity and precision. The more readers know about the nonverbal idiom of attraction, the more likely they will find a loving, lasting partner.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312315061
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 1/10/2006
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 286,431
Product dimensions: 5.51 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 0.71 (d)

Meet the Author

David Givens began studying body language at the University of Washington in Seattle. He served as Resident Anthropologist and Director of information services and programs at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. for more than a decade. He is currently Director of the Center for Non-Verbal Studies in Spokane, Washington. He teaches in the Department of Communication Arts at Gonzaga University. He offers seminars on nonverbal communication to diverse audiences, including lawyers, judges, social workers, salespeople, physicians. He works with law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Intelligence community.

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sumjuan

Posted May 10, 2009

Outstanding, couldn't put it down!!!

Very detail and informative. the further i read into the book the more compelled i was to finish it.
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Anonymous

Posted July 20, 2008

Excellent for single people looking for someone

Very engaging, easy to read, good info and seemed to be well researched. I got it for my single sons to read and read it myself. I think they will enjoy it. It is an overlooked aspect of the dating scene I think and could be very useful. Makes me want to read other body language books.
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