[syndicate] Re: Re: Re: ask usenet

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Le vendredi, 12 sep 2003, à 23:38 Europe/Paris, Fr. M. a écrit :

> you talkin' to me ?
>
> f.
>
> At 10:51 12/09/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>> "we tend to interpret avoidance of eye-contact as a signal for
>> deceptiveness. On the other hand, almost constant eye-contact may
>> be interpreted as deliberate overcompensation, so may also be
>> interpreted as a signal of deceptiveness. Much depends, as always,
>> on our assessment of the context and of the other person...I once
>> had a boss who met almost any even slightly awkward question with
>> prolonged, unblinking eye-contact. As I was the union
>> representative at the time, I took this as an attempt to intimidate
>> me, so stared back, which always became so absurd after a time that
>> I could barely repress my laughter, with the result that when he
>> did eventually say something it was greeted by a broad smile from
>> me. He then became visibly more relaxed, presumably because he
>> thought I was pleased by his reply, only to tense up visibly when
>> my rejoinder made it perfectly clear that I was far from satisfied.
>> A lot of potential there for communication breakdown! When one of
>> my students went to interview him, his question was also met with a
>> prolonged stare. As this student had just come from another college
>> whose principal was open, friendly and accessible, it didn't occur
>> to the student to interpret the stare as an attempt to intimidate.
>> He was in fact just about to spring from his chair and go to the
>> principal's assistance when the principal finally spoke. As the
>> student reported to me after the interview, he thought that the
>> principal was suffering a catatonic fit."
>>
>> http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html
>>
>> "Fr. M." <fmadre at free.fr> wrote:At 23:09 11/09/2003 -0700, you
>> wrote:
>> >Would you like to talk
>> >now
>> >or later?
>>
>> not to you.
>>
>> f.
>>
>>
>>
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