Courtship – Rejection Signals - 1

Rejection or indifference signals too have been divided into three categories: face expressions and movements of the head, body gestures and postures. In the first category there are the signals related to eye contact avoidance.

As we have seen in another article, when we have examined courtship gestures, the glance is a fundamental nonverbal communication element between two people. If there is a lack of eye contact, you can hardly proceed with further signals.

By avoiding eye contact, the woman send a dissuading signal to the man and communicates her lack of interest. She can lift her eyes to look at the ceiling, for example, she can look at her hair or she can gaze at objects making him understand she has shifted her attention from him to other things.

Obviously among these signals it is also present the total absence of eye contact, in which the woman doesn't look at the person in front of her even if he is looking at her, and the adverting of the eyes, in which the woman adverts her eyes from the man that is in that moment, for instance, talking to her.

It can sometimes happen that the woman, instead of avoiding eye contact or adverting the eyes, gaze the person she wants to dissuade directly in the eyes for a long time, sometimes giggling, until he does stop looking at her.

Other gestures present in this category include the yawn and the head shake, both signals of indifference and disapproval we direct to a possible interlocutor.