Joe Navarro

Oh, no, no.

And as it turns out, a lot of people don't know how to shake hands, and especially men.

And they forget that you're not shooting a gun so that your index finger is forward, that your finger should always be pointed directly down, and that the pressure...

should be equal to the other person's, that nobody's impressed if you have a really strong handshake and that it's very cultural.

I mean, to the point where literally in Utah, they have what's called a Mormon handshake, where it's this very tight, very vigorous handshake of showing just how excited they are to meet you.

Well, you go anywhere else in the world and the handshakes are very light.

A lot of people don't, but because I deal with so many cultures, if you go to Vietnam, if you go to China, if India, Pakistan, even in Saudi Arabia, the handshakes are really very light.

Well, definitely.

Our feet are very honest.

So when we are very safe and comfortable with the person in front of us, we will show what's called the ventral side, the chest side towards that person.

And of course, the feet follow.

When we're uncomfortable with a person, you might enter into a party and see someone you don't like.

your feet will immediately orient in a different direction.

Now at the hips and maybe from head up, you'll say hi, but your feet will orient you away from that person.

Your feet are extremely honest when it comes to that.

In the same way that you could be on an elevator leaning against the wall with your legs crossed, so you're basically off balance.

But if a bunch of young people come in and you can smell alcohol on their breath, you will immediately unveil those feet and put both feet planted firmly because your brain doesn't permit you to be off balance.

you know smiling has always been powerful when we look at the literature from the 1500 1600 of early export explorers as they went around the world they found that you know smiling was in fact very pervasive

And I think it's still one of those things that we look for.

But with the research, it's now been narrowed down to actually what really impresses people is when we greet them with our eyes, when we greet with the eyebrow flash.