Eye to Eye: How People Interact

Human communications are fully explored in a study of the kinds of eye contact, body language, and other behaviors that play an important role in shaping personal relationships

YA-- In this British offering, 27 experts delve into the complex interactions that make up our relations and communications with other human beings. How we mark our own territory, react to another's scent, make eye contact, read facial expressions, and other skills which enable us to interact with others are covered in Part I. Part II discusses specific relationships between parents, children, siblings, friends, and pets. A wide scope of relationship problems related to shyness, loneliness, jealousy, sexual relationships, and breaking up are discussed. An alphabetical subject guide enables quick and easy reference use, with a more extensive index provided in the back of the book. "Enjoying a Sexual Relationship" discusses sexual satisfaction in the context of making personal relationships work and is illustrated with nude photographs. The clean layout and a wealth of charts and graphs make this volume an easy resource for YAs to use for research in psychology, health, or sociology classes. Bountiful color photographs illustrate this enjoyable, comprehensive volume. It's also an excellent book for browsers.
- Gwen Salama, Hastings High School, Alief, Tex.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The observations of 26 British and American psychologists are here combined in words and pictures "to identify precisely what it means to be a social animal." A busy format blends text, headlines, boxed sidebars, diagrams, photographs and extended captions in a graphic overview of innate and cultural human communication. The book analyzes how facial expression, eye contact, touch, gesture, appearance and comportment function in such attitudes as shyness, enthusiasm, territorial awareness, dominance, rivalry, aggression and so on in minor acquaintance, friendship, group activity, romance, sexual attraction, family relationships and career contacts as well as the possible effect of these on individual health, self-esteem, success or failure. Conclusions reached are sometimes sweeping and rather flatly stated"women" gesture thus, "Italians" thusbut there is no doubt about the universal appeal of this engaging tour de force. 75,000 first printing; first serial to Self magazine; BOMC, QPBC, Macmillan Human Science and McGraw Hill Book Club selections; author tour.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.