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says “I am receptive, comfortable, and friendly.” <strong>The</strong> head tilt is one of the very significant and<br />

prominent postures that everyone should be aware of, especially educators of any kind. A professor for<br />

example, can gauge his efficacy as an instructor by the degree to which his audience tilts their head.<br />

Head tilting is also very difficult to fake because our minds will resist the posture when we dislike what<br />

we are hearing or the people around us, making it a very honest and reliable gesture.<br />

Head on, means passive listening for example, head slightly tilted shows moderate interest and head at<br />

its maximum forty-five degrees shows full immersion. A teacher might see variations across his<br />

audience, and also across the subject matter. Head tilting is not an all or nothing phenomenon. This<br />

makes it easy to measure the success of a presentation nonverbally and tweak it as necessary.<br />

Dogs also tilt their head, usually by engaging them in human conversations, so the root of this<br />

mechanism could simply be the state of being confusion. <strong>The</strong> head tilt is also a submissive gesture as it<br />

exposes the neck making it vulnerable to attack. One of the more prominent courtship displays is the<br />

exposed neck, and when done by women, is particularly alluring. This is examined in a later chapter.

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