The Ultimate Body Language Book

Good things are not on the horizon.
While most closed body language means that a negative attitude is present, context permitting, there
exist varying degrees. For example, full arm crossing accompanied by expressionless faces, a tense,
rigid, or hostile posture with limbs that appear frozen runs the gambit of rejection. Tentative closed
body language where only some blocking is happening will show a semi-relaxed body language,
possible boredom, a neutral face and moderate movement of the arms and hands. In the first case,
where closed language is extreme, getting any kind of agreement is unlikely. The second set of postures
says that there’s a possibility of forming an agreement. So rather than depicting “no”, some closed body
language says “Maybe” or “I’ll think about it.”