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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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indicate confrontation due to anger or aggression, fear from threats, when we feel displeasure or are<br />

annoyed. If eyebrows are dropped low enough and kept there it indicates weakness and insecurity. This<br />

is true universally and so can even appear in children especially those who are abused. Lowered<br />

eyebrows is submissive, cowering, facial expression.<br />

Inmate report seeking the gesture when new prisoners arrive as clues to which will make easy targets.<br />

Lowered eyebrows is a sign of being defeated and weak and shows that one is unlikely to put up a<br />

fight. Bullies at school will also look for the expression to single out children as prey and so will social<br />

predators and psychopaths. Victims are rarely chosen at random and I’ve witnessed the body language<br />

myself from a woman who reported suffering abuse as a child and several times as an adult. She carried<br />

herself in vulnerable ways and stood out for this reason so she likely attracted attention as an easy<br />

target. In business, eyebrow lowering can indicate the relative strength of a position and in negotiation<br />

show that someone is willing to surrender with little fight.

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