Do you need anger management?

What signs might you be giving?

Are your:

• Neck and/or face red or flushed?
• teeth bared and are you snarling?
•  fists clenched?

•  Do you have the tendency of leaning forward and invade another persons space? you may deliberately threaten a person by invading their body space.

 

• Do you show other signals of aggressive body language like:

• Facial signals

  A lot of signals come from the face from disapproving frowns and pursed lips to sneers and full snarls. The eyes can be used to stare and hold the gaze for long period. They may also squint, preventing the other person seeing where you are looking at that moment.
  

  Attack signals

  When somebody is about to attack, they give visual signal such as clenching of fists ready to strike and lowering and spreading of the body for stability. They are also likely to give anger signs such as redness of the face.  This would commonly happen before a fight.
  

  Exposing oneself

  To expose yourself is another form of aggression. It is saying 'Go on - I dare you (motivating the person to carry on). I will still win.' It can include not looking at the other person, crotch displays, relaxing the body, turning away etc.
  

• Use of power body language (Touch -"HAPTICS":
  Touching is a powerful symbol as we've seen in previous post (haptics). Touching people can be threatening, and is used by leaders to demonstrate power.
  
  The handshake is, of course, a touch, and can lead to further touching, such as the elbow grip and patting shoulders and back.
  
  If you'd like a laugh check out the movie: Anger Management
  
  
  

Haptic Feedback - technology

Ever heard of haptic feedback? 

Here we start to mention technology.  Ever notice how the world of touchscreens are starting to take over?  Touchscreens would not exist without the human sense of touch. What a privilege to be able to touch.

Haptic feedback can also be seen as an user interface or simly haptics.  Haptic feedback is the use of the sense - touch - in a user interface to provide information to the end user.

When we communicate and physically touch we sometimes intend to send another message as not initially intended. The same counts when technology like mobile phones come into the picture.  When you want a specific function or information to appear you need to touch the screen (applicable to touch interfaces) to make that happen.  A user can also set vibration functions to activate when a touch action is used.

Touch can take place between people or you and your technological device like your iPad or iPhone ect. Touching is all around us. Can you imagine a world where we wouldn't be able to touch?

HAPTICS - Culture facts

Interested in some interesting facts that shed light on culture differences -

Touching is infrequent in western cultures which makes it even more significant when it happens. 

French and Italians for example, tend to touch frequently even continuously while walking, whereas the British prefer not to touch at all. At sporting events and especially in celebration of victory or success, such as scoring a goal or point, touching among male athletes is permitted whereas in the dressing room, a hands-off policy is the norm. 

India, Italy, Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, Spain, Russia and parts of Asia are cultures that accept touching more often whereas no touching cultures includes Germany, Japan, England, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Estonia, Portugal, Northern Europe and Scandinavia.

In the workplace, touching is fairly uncommon. We therefore use the handshake as a universal form of touching to avoid offending others. More intimate forms of touching sometimes occurs such as a friendly pat on the back to display encouragement but generally speaking, touching at work should be kept to a minimum. 

Cultures around the world, different perspectives on the subject of touching