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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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A purse can be used as a shield to protect the torso. If you want to know how she really feels about you,<br />

just measure much she trusts you around her purse.<br />

This type of body language is defined as ‘leaked’ because consciously the person is trying to prevent it<br />

from happening, but their conscious mind is only successful at blocking a more obvious gesture by<br />

replacing it with one that is slightly less pronounced. <strong>The</strong> gestures are also considered “masked arm<br />

crosses” because they create a barrier-effect protecting the body, but aren’t full blow arm crosses. Other<br />

forms of gestures that fall in the same family include holding or clutching a bag, checking the contents

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