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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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Thumbs up means good things in the West, but in other cultures it means “up yours!”<br />

Many cultures also determine whether natural expressions are permitted, inhibited or exaggerated<br />

further confusing the issue. For example, certain cultures permit open public weeping from grief<br />

whereas others inhibit these natural gestures. This is called the “display rule” and it says that it is the<br />

culture from which we are raised that determines what level of expression of emotion is permitted. <strong>The</strong><br />

culture sets the norm. In a study where a particularly gory film was projected to subjects, the Japanese<br />

and American subjects showed similar stress-type facial expressions. However, when a scientist was

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