Courtship – Rejection Signals – 2

In the second category we find rejection gestures like: taking care of her fingernails, showing indifference in who is in front of her, putting her hands in the pockets, hiding the palms (a part of the body that, as previously seen, if shown, points out availability towards the potential partner) and the arm crossing, a known signal of closure to the external world.

In the last category, postures, the movement of two or more body parts, there are: the crossing of the legs, that like the arm crossing, is an unequivocal signal of closure and the pulling back from the interlocutor, a gesture opposite to the lean forward to get closer to the other person that we have seen in the courtship signals articles.

Finally, among the rejection signals, there is the total absence of physical contact, also accidental, with the man.
What we have previously said for courtship signals is also true for rejection and refusal signals: those that can seem simple gestures without any connection to the situation and the place in which they manifest, are in reality nonverbal signals with precise meanings that generally provoke predictable reactions in the subjects to which they are directed.

In the specific case of rejection signals, they determine, as observed in the researches that have cataloged them, behaviors like, for instance, the cessation of eye contact, the interruption of the conversation or the leaving of the man.

In conclusion, those described are signals that women use for discouraging men from which they are not attracted and to dissuade them from trying a possible approach or, if they are approached, to show their indifference to the man.