COMMUNICATION: How To Flirt, Start Conversations And Keep Them Going? The Art Of Succesful Flirting and Dating | Page 13

learn from the 'Verbal flirting' sections of this Guide, these are essential ingredients of successful flirting. So, assuming
your target finds you attractive, an eyebrow-flash with appropriate follow-up could leapfrog you into instant intimacy.
Two warnings are necessary here:
1) If your target does not find you attractive,
the eyebrow-flash strategy may backfire, as
the confusion over whether or not you
already know each other will be experienced
as unpleasant and annoying, rather than
amusing.
2) Do not use the eyebrow-flash in Japan,
where it has definite sexual connotations and
is therefore never used as a greeting signal.
If your target is attracted to you, this may be
more evident in facial expressions than in
words. Studies have found that women are
generally better than men at reading these
expressions, but that both sexes have equal
difficulty in seeing through people's
expressions when they are controlling their faces to hide their real feelings.
The problem is that although faces do express genuine feelings, any facial expressi