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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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This interest posture is hard to miss.<br />

A study conducted in 2006 headed by Eva Krumhuber of the United Kingdom presented subjects with<br />

male and female computerized characters differing in types of smiles and head tilting. <strong>The</strong>y found that<br />

a “slow onset smile”, a smile that gradually forms versus one that quickly flashes across the face, was<br />

not only more attractive, more trustworthy and more flirtatious but also less fake and less dominant.<br />

This held true for both men and women. <strong>The</strong> head tilt added an extra positive dimension as well. In the<br />

study they rated people as being even more attractive and trustworthy when they canted their head

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