POWER, SEX, AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION*

human relationships, there is a micropolitical structure that helps maintain it. The trivia of everyday life-using sir or first name, touching others, dropping the eyes, smiling, interrupting, and so on--that characterize these micropolitics are commonly understood as facilitators of social intercourse, but are not recognized as defenders of the status quo--of the state, of the wealthy, of authority, of all those whose power may be challenged....