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The Body Language and Emotion of Cats

Myrna M. Milani

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All the charm of an autopsy 1 out of 5 stars.
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If you're looking for a fun book about cat communication be sure to pass this one by. It's long on physiology - for example, a detailed explanation about how purring is produced - but very short on psychology: There's little discussion of what causes a cat to purr.

The author takes a completely clinical approach to her subject matter. For her cat ownership is obviously a very serious business, fraught with difficulties. She addresses only "problem" behavior - as if cats' actions and antics couldn't also be curiously delightful and funny. She perceives bonding with cats as an obstacle for humans, worthy of an entire instructional chapter.

Somehow I thought that a book with this title would have rich insights into all kinds of cat behavior. I expected some humor; maybe a little anthropomorphizing; and the kind of warmth I feel from the three sweet little furballs now dozing on my lap. No such luck. It has all the charm of an autopsy.

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Using the latest research in animal behavior, Dr. Milani has produced a wonderfully intriguing book about the body language of cats and what it reveals, including how body language displays can enhance or undermine relationships between cats and people.

Crime Signals: How to Spot a Criminal Before You Become a Victim

David Givens

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Crime is never unpredictable. 

 

Before a lie is spoken, a pocket is picked, or an assault is inflicted, each and every criminal gives off silent cues.  They can be as subtle as a shrug of the shoulder, a pointed finger, or an averted gaze.  But together, they make up a nonverbal language that speaks loud and clear—if you’re trained to see it. 

 

CRIME SIGNALS is the first book to offer a comprehensive guide to the body language of criminals.  Filled with amazing real-life stories of crime and survival, it's designed to help you stay alert to the warning signs of a wide array of offenses.  From the tell-tale signals of a swindler to the warning signs that experts use to help thwart terrorism and violent crime, this book breaks down a criminal's body language into clear recognizable symbols.

 

What is the look of a lie?  How do child predators unknowingly give themselves away?  What were the clues that exposed white-collar offenders like Martha Stewart and Andrew Fastow?  Answering these questions and more, Dr. David Givens, a renowned anthropologist and one of the nation's foremost experts in nonverbal communication, offers a fascinating, instructive, and essential tool for warding off crime and protecting the safety or yourself and your family.

Walking Your Talk: Changing Your Life Through the Magic of Body Language

Lavinia Plonka

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In every movement of our bodies, we express a world of emotions. But our movements don't just reflect our emotions-they directly affect them.

In Walking Your Talk, Lavinia Plonka explores the connection between how we move and how we feel. Our movements and body posture are more than just simple expressions of our feelings-they are a powerful factor in our well-being. And changing them can be a crucial first step in altering our emotional behaviors.

Drawing from her years of experience as a movement teacher and Feldenkrais Method(r) instructor, Plonka provides simple exercises, thought-provoking lessons, and real-life examples that help readers better understand the relationship between their movement patterns and their emotional state.

After beginning with an overview of both historical and modern ideas about the correlation between bodily movement and human emotion and expression, Plonka turns theory into practice by addressing each major area of the body-and the emotional baggage held there. Through exploratory exercises, we learn more about:

- how we carry stress-from responsibilities, family issues, and financial burdens-in our shoulders; - why we "freeze" the pelvis-the bodily center of personal freedom, power, spontaneity, and sexuality; and - the self-confidence (or lack thereof) we convey through our carriage.

Whether she is examining how a depressed chest can make us feel psychologically depressed, how body language is used to deceive others, or how loosening our pelvis can help us break a lifelong cycle of self-destructive behavior, Plonka is always caring and insightful, guiding readers to a deeper awareness of themselves and how changing their posture has the potential to change their whole lives.

Touch

Gabriel Josipovici

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Touch and Go 4 out of 5 stars.
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I ran across the author in a recent article in the TLS which I liked a lot. "Touch" is not new; it was published in 1996, but the title caught my eye, and I wanted to read something more substantial by this author. Evidently, the author has been around, but I have just recently discovered him. He has the range of George Steiner, one of my favorites for years. This author has Steiner's erudition but his background is less easily identified. In this book he refers to having had a childhood in Egypt, I believe, but from there it is less clear what he has been up to, although the book's jackets says he is a full professor in England. Be that as it may, my point is that unlike Steiner, Josipovici has a less obviously identifiable focus. Steiner, a Viennese Jew, is Holocaust haunted, while Josipovici seems more focused on pre-Modern literary concerns. The author's thesis is that it is through touch that we fully imagine the world, not as one might think, through sight, especially in light of our modern obsession with viewing and watching. He plays off of expressions such as "I'm touched" and one's being "out of touch," and so on, to make his points. The Yale text is nicely illustrated with paintings. The author concentrates on authors such as Dante, Dostoevski, and Chaucer, but ranges widely from Charlie Chaplin to Rembrandt. Oddly enough, I didn't find the piece especially compelling, but it may be that the author simply left me behind.

Editorial Review:

In this brilliant new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses on touch, sight, and distance, on connection and communication in life. Gabriel Josipovici argues that it is possible to feel comfortable in the world and in our relationships to others only if we value touch over sight and respect distance yet work to overcome it. Josipovici`s writing is lucid, imaginative, and daring; his book is both inspiring and, yes, touching.

Silent Messages: Implicit Communication of Emotions and Attitudes

Albert Mehrabian

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The Psychology of Facial Expression (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

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Not a bad book at all 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of the interesting things about science is how often its finding are counter-intuitive and are surprizes. You would think that most people are pretty good at reading facial expressions, and that some people like professional poker players are more than pretty good. In fact I once saw a book published for the benefit of the silent movie actors which had examples of facial expressions to be used to convey certain emotions on the screen: like a wide open mouth to signify surprize or amazement. It turns out that in real life as we know it such is not the case and that we are not so accurate as to our assessments of others. Sometimes a person with a wry smile is just a person with a wry smile. That what this book is about. It will help you learn that you still have something to learn. This is however a book for professionals in the psychology biz, since it recounts a lot of data. But it would be a useful tool for anyone interested in science as a whole, and anyone who like me is always interested in finding out that his entrenched preconceptions are not so well trenched as he thinks. That the footings are weak.

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This reference work provides broad and up-to-date coverage of the major perspectives--ethological, neurobehavioral, developmental, dynamic systems, and componential--on facial expression. The text reviews Darwin's legacy in the context of Izard and Tomkins' new theories as well as Fridlund's recently proposed Behavioural Ecology theory. Other contributions explore continuing controversies on universality and innateness, and update the research guidelines of Ekman, Friesen and Ellsworth. This book anticipates emerging research questions, such as the role of culture in children's understanding of faces, the precise ways faces depend on the immediate context, and the ecology of facial expression. The Psychology of Facial Expression is aimed at students, researchers, and educators in psychology, anthropology, and sociology who are interested in the emotive and communicative uses of facial expression.

Collins Gem Body Language: How to Understand the Unspoken Language of Your Body

David Lambert

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Non-verbal Communication in Depression (European Monographs in Social Psychology)

Heiner Ellgring

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How does mood affect nonverbal communication, the gazes, gestures and facial expressions which accompany dialogue? This important monograph, based on a longitudinal study of five hundred interviews with depressed patients and normal subjects, systematically examines the ways in which mental illness may affect nonverbal interaction patterns. A number of specific patterns of nonverbal behaviour are identified which relate directly to psychological state and also depend on the interaction of the participants in a dialogue. Nonverbal Communication in Depression is not only rich in much-needed empirical data, but it also offers a fresh theoretical and methodological perspective on communicative behaviour in general. Most importantly, perhaps, it represents a real advance in our understanding of the functions of various nonverbal mechanisms and thus provides the clinical psychologist and psychiatrist with an important diagnostic tool.

El lenguaje del cuerpo (Spanish Edition)

Julius Fast

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Based on the premise that the movements of the body are the projection of a person's deepest and most private thoughts and feelings, this breakdown of movement creates a comprehensive analysis of the body's silent language. This scientific approach to body language argues that movement and gesture—signals constantly emitted by the human body—can be interpreted and understood as accurately as verbal expression, and perhaps even more so.

 

Basado en la idea que los movimientos del cuerpo son proyecciones de las creencias y emociones más oscuras y privadas de una persona, esta interpretación del movimiento descubre el vocabulario silencioso del cuerpo. Esta análisis científico del lenguaje del cuerpo propone que alguien puede interpretar y entender los movimientos y los gestos—las señas emitidas constantemente por el cuerpo—tan exactamente, tal vez más, que la expresión verbal.

Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals

Jack P. Hailman

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This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns and vocalizations). The book also considers some coding principles for reducing certain unwanted redundancies and explains how desirable redundancies enhance communication reliability.

Jack Hailman believes this work pioneers several aspects of analyzing human and animal communication. The book is the first to survey man-made signals as a class. It is also the first to compare such human-devised systems with signaling in animals by showing the highly similar ways in which the two encode information. A third innovation is generalizing principles of quantitative information theory to apply to a broad range of signaling systems. Finally, another first is distinguishing among types of redundancy and their separation into unwanted and desirable categories.

This remarkably novel book will be of interest to a wide readership. Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an important class of human communication.