How much notice do you take of other people’s body language?

When you see a person for the first time, are there any outward signs they give which proclaim their status, interests or personality? What are they?

Do you try to use body language when you communicate in English?

How close to each other do people in our culture stand when they are having a conversation?

How much attention do you pay to how you sit or act if you are in a meeting or a class? Do you spin your pen round your thumb? Chew your pencil? Doodle? Yawn? How would you feel if you were in charge of the class or the meeting and you saw

How do you "interpret" people’s handshakes?

Eye contact is important in communication, but there are different ways of maintaining it, including a constant, fixed, contact, or looking people in the eye for a moment and then looking away. What sort of eye contact do you use/prefer?

How can you misinterpret someone's body language?

How does your native culture use body language? How do people normally says things without words in Costa Rican culture?

How do you feel if somebody you are not in communication with stares at you?

Do you think that all cultures "speak" the same body language?

Do people in our culture normally touch each other when they speak?