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David B Givens


David B Givens b. 1943 (awaiting confirmation)

Anthropologist David Givens is the director of the Centre for Nonverbal Studies in Spokane, Washington. He has been a consultant for Pfizer, Epson, Wendy’s, Dell, Unilever, and Best Buy, and teaches Communication and Leadership in the graduate program of the School of Professional Studies at Gonzaga University. In his books, which include Crime Signals, Love Signals and The Nonverbal Dictionary of gestures, signs and body language cues, Givens looks at how and why we behave as we do, as animals do, such as our metalis muscle, which covers the chin and causes the skin to quiver, being a muscle that reflects emotion. Our primal behaviours and influences are discussed, applying greed, trust and deception to contemporary, practical settings.

Read Your Body at Work: A guide to sight-reading the body language of business, bosses, and boardrooms. (2010) NY: St Martin’s Press
Also by David Givens:
Love Signals (1985)