If the next time you go out for a drink you observe the people sitting around you, you will see that, while talking, men tend to gesture a lot and maintain a fairly neutral expression on their faces . In contrast, women make moderate hand gestures, but use facial gestures to send and receive messages. Females also smile more while talking and are attracted to those who smile back.
On the other hand, body posture during a conversation can affect communication between the sexes. A few years ago, linguist Deborah Tannen analyzed video recordings of individuals of all ages speaking to people of the same sex. And he found that while men sit at an angle to each other , looking at each other only periodically, women tend to face each other and maintain eye contact all the time to express their interest. For this reason, in conversations between people of different sexes, it is common for a woman to have the feeling that the man, who looks the other way, is not listening, argues Tannen.
