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People who are extroverted and emotionally expressive tend to use firm handshakes, but people who are neurotic or shy don't.
Source: William Chaplin and students, "Handshaking, gender, personality, and first impressions."
Divder Sex

Opening moves

Drawing attention to her neck and wrist
Men are traditionally considered the players in the mating game, with chat-up lines, suave invitations to dinner, and wooing with flowers viewed as typical masculine opening moves. However, research has revealed that it is actually women who initiate sexual encounters. By signing their interest and approachability, often unconsciously, they encourage men to make what has previously been considered the 'first' move.

'The woman at the bar saw him come in. Later he caught her looking at him. She looked away, not quite immediately. Then she glanced back once, and then once again. In the moment that their eyes met across the crowded room she widened hers at him, before turning her back. He continued to observe her as she flicked her hair and shifted in her seat, arching her back as if to make herself more comfortable.'

A bad Mills & Boon novel? Potentially. A come-hither? Absolutely. And most women use some if not all of these tells to show men they are interested - but they may not even realise they are doing it!

In fact, psychologists have observed that sending out these approachability signals is a more effective way of meeting a man than simply by being good-looking! Of course, being gorgeous and giving out good signals works best, but if men have to choose between the two, they prefer the telling signs of availability. Men who read the signs right will only approach interested women, avoiding rebuffs and embarrassment and improving their prospects of further sexual success.

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