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BL
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1037482
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b791852
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| Main Entry
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Morris, Desmond.
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| Title & Author
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Peoplewatching /\ Desmond Morris.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Vintage,, 2002.
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| Page. NO
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xvii, 526 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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0099429780
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: 9780099429784
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-507) and index.
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| Contents
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Body-contact tie-signs: The way companions touch each other in public -- Auto-contact behaviour: Self-intimacies -- why and how we touch ourselves -- Non-verbal leakage: Clues that give us away without our knowing -- Contradictory signals: Giving two conflicting signals at the same time -- Shortfall signals: When we underreact despite ourselves -- Overkill signals: When we overreact -- Status displays: Ways in which we signal our position in the social peck order -- Territorial behaviour: The defence of a limited area -- Barrier signals: Body-defence actions in social situations -- Protective behaviour: Reactions to danger -- both real and imaginary -- Submissive behaviour: How we appease our critics or attackers -- Religious displays: Actions performed to placate imagined deities -- Altruistic behaviour: How do we help others at our own expense? -- Fighting behaviour: Pulling punches and throwing punches -- the biology of human combat -- Triumph displays: How winners celebrate and losers react.
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Cut-off: Actions that block incoming visual signals when we under stress -- Autonomic signals: Actions and other changes resulting from body-stress -- Pupil signals: Pupil dilations and constrictions indicating changes of mood -- Intention movements: Get-ready actions that signal future intentions -- Displacement activities: Agitated fill-in actions performed during periods of acute tension -- Redirected activities: Actions diverted on to a bystander -- Re-motivating activities: Actions which stimulate a new mood as a way of eliminating an old one -- Insult signals: Sneers and snubs -- the ways we show disrespect and contempt -- Threat signals: Attempts to intimidate without coming to blows -- Obscene signals: The symbolism of sexual insults -- Taboo zones: Regions of the human body that are out of bounds -- Overexposed signals: Going too far -- breaking through the etiquette barrier -- Clothing signals: Clothing as display, comfort and modesty -- Body adornment: Social mutilations and cosmetic decorations.
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Gender signals: Masculine and feminine signals that help to label or emphasize the sex of the signaller -- Body self-mimicry: Ways in which we imitate ourselves anatomically -- Sexual signals: The courtship and pre-copulatory sequence of the human animal -- Parental signals: Maternal and paternal messages of loving care and safety -- Infantile signals: The babyface syndrome, and the signals of crying, smiling and laughing -- Animal contacts: From predator to pets: human involvement with other species -- Play patterns: Play signals, play rules and playfulness -- Meta-signals: How one signal can tell us about the nature of other signals -- Supernormal stimuli: The creation of stimuli stronger than their natural equivalents -- Aesthetic behaviour: Our reactions to the beautiful in nature and in art -- Laterality: Left-handed versus right-handed -- Locomotion: The twenty basic ways of moving from place to place -- Aquatic behaviours: Was the human species more aquatic in the ancient past? -- Feeding behaviour: How and where and what we drink and eat -- Sporting behaviour: The biology of sport -- a modern hunting ritual -- Resting behaviour: The postures of relaxation and the nature of sleeping and dreaming -- Age: The human lifespan and how we prolong it -- The future: What lies in store for the human species.
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Gesture variants: Personal or local variations on gestural themes -- Multi-message gestures: Gestures that have many meanings -- Gesture alternatives: Different gestures that transmit the same signal -- Hybrid gestures: Signals made up of two original gestures -- Compound gestures: Gestures made up of a number of distinct elements -- Relic gestures: Gestures that have survived long after their primary contexts have vanished -- Regional signals: The way signals change from country to country and district to district -- Baton signals: actions that emphasize the rhythm of words -- Guide signs: Pointing and beckoning -- how we show the way -- Yes/No signals: Ways in which we signal agreement and acceptance, or denial and refusal -- Gaze behavior: Staring eyes and glancing eyes -- the way we look at one another -- Salutation displays: Hello and goodbye -- greetings and farewells -- Postural echo: The way friends unconsciously act in unison -- Tie-signs: Signals that display personal bonds to others.
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Introduction -- Actions. Inborn actions: Actions we do not have to learn; Discovered actions: Actions we discover for ourselves; Absorbed actions: Actions we acquire unknowingly from our companions; Trained actions: Actions we have to be taught; Mixed actions: Actions acquired in several ways -- Gestures. Incidental gestures: Mechanical actions, with secondary messages; Expressive gestures: Biological gestures of the kind we share with other animals; Mimic gestures: Gestures which transmit signals by imitation; Schematic gestures: Imitations that become abbreviated or abridged; Symbolic gestures: Gestures which represent moods and ideas; Technical gestures: Gestures used by specialist minorities; Coded gestures: Sign language based on a formal system.
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| Abstract
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This is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions.
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Body language.
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Body language.
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Communication.
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Psychologie.
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Relations humaines.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.222
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| LC Classification
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BF637.N66M677 2002
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| Parallel Title
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Desmond Morris guide to body language
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| Cover Title
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People watching :the Desmond Morris guide to body language
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