Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

asymmetric/asymmetry
- describing gestures or facial 
expressions, especially a smile, that are not symmetrical (equal on 
both sides), which tends to indicate incongruence or a mixed 
signal and not what it might initially seem to mean. 

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Attitude - 
a positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, 
events, or ideas in one's environment an expression of favor or 
disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event 
 
auto-contact
- describing self-touching gestures and actions.
autonomic/automatic signals
- effectively involuntary stress-
induced physiological behaviours, such as crying, shaking, 
blushing, quickened pulse-rate, and in extreme cases retching, 
vomiting, fainting, etc.
barrier
- something which prevents something from happening 
or makes it difficult 
biculturalism
- The state or quality of being bicultural. 
body language
- noun - the conscious and unconscious 
movements and postures by which attitudes and feelings are 
communicated [for example]: his intent was clearly expressed in 
his body language." 
cluster
- term for a group of body language signals, which more 
reliably indicate meaning or mood than a single signal. 

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