Love signals : a practical field guide to the body language of courtship /

As one would study the mating rituals of whooping cranes, so Givens (director, Ctr. for Nonverbal Studies, Spokane, WA) has studied the courtship behavior of humans. Both men and women, he says, send and receive body language cues to encourage or discourage them to advance and move closer. If one knows this "secret language," he or she knows how to dress, sit, stand, walk, and gaze across a room to advantage and will be more likely to find a loving partner. While billed as dating how-to, the book is more academic; readers might not wish to know that the brain circuits for falling in love trigger heightened activity in the forebrain's anterior cingulated cortex, in the medial insula, and the two regions of the basal ganglia. Recommended more as a manual for understanding nonverbal communication. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.