A few fascinating nuggets from The Definitive Book of Body Language:
Research by psychologists at Harvard University showed how women are far more alert to body language than men. The doctors showed short films, with the sound turned off, of a man and woman communicating, and the participants were asked to decode what was happening by reading the couple’s expressions. The research showed that women read the situation accurately 87% of the time, while the men scored only 42% accuracy. Men in “nurturing” occupations, such as artistic types, acting, and nursing, did nearly as well as the women; gay men also scored well. Female intuition is particularly evident in women who have raised children. For the first few years, the mother relies almost solely on the nonverbal channel to communicate with the child and this is why women are often more perceptive negotiators than men, because they practice reading signals early.
Most women have the brain organization to outcommunicate any man on the planet. magnetic resonance imaging brain scans clearly show why women have far greater capacity for communicating with and evaluating people than men do. Women have between 14 and 16 areas of the brain to evaluate others’ behavior versus a man’s four to six areas. This explains how a woman can attend a dinner party and rapidly work out the state of the relationships of other couples at the party-who’s had an argument, who likes who, and so on. It also explains why, from a woman’s standpoint, men don’t seem to talk much and, from a man’s standpoint, women never seem to shut up.
Most “psychics” are female because, as women, as discussed previously, they have the extra brain wiring to allow them to read the body signals of babies and to read others’ emotional condition.
