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In today’s exercise, we are going to look at the shift from fight to flight in a confrontation while skiing.
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Identifying Triggers To The Escalating Intensity of Behavior
December 5, 2017 in Assessing Individuals..
In this exercise, we are going to focus on the importance of identifying an escalation in intensity of the dominant cluster and how it impacts threat recognition.
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In today’s video, we are going to focus on the need for developing intuitive recognition of pre-event indicators to violence when in close proximity to people you don’t know.
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- What the Dominant Cluster is
- The dominant cluster is one of the four primary assessments used to assess individual people.
- It reflects the body’s manifestation of the fight response to stresses and threats.
- The criteria for assigning someone to the dominant cluster:
- People who are using their body language to make themselves look larger.
- People who are making territorial displays.
- Application notes
- Dominance is not limited to physical confrontation as part of the fight response, but includes the posturing that could be used to make a person back down.
- Includes bullying, intimidation, and the giving of direction.
- Indicators listed in Left of Bang that apply to dominance
- Lower Body
- Seated: Feet planted on the floor and legs splayed out, taking up space.
- Seated: Legs crossed and with their hands holding their ankle or lower calf, demonstrating confidence in one’s view.
- Standing: Legs should-width apart, taking up more space.
- Torso
- Seated: Leaning back with hands clasped behind head, taking up more space
- Standing: Hands on hips in an authoritative way, with their arms akimbo they are taking up more space
- Standing: Leaning forward in an aggressive manner, attempting to look bigger or intimidate others
- Standing: Stretching torso and making oneself look taller by standing upright and erect
- These can be complimented by observing the chin up and thrusting the chest out.
- Hands and Arms
- Arms spread out on an object (table, counter, etc.) taking up more space – a territorial display
- Hands clasped behind back as if judging or evaluating
- Wrist and palm facing down when shaking hands or greeting
- Pointing with hands while talking or lecturing
- Steeple gesture with hands (perceived as intellectual and confident)
- Other Indicators
- Maintaining one’s gaze for a longer period of time or not averting one’s own gaze
- Dominant people can breach another’s intimate proxemic zone
- Touch other people to demonstrate control
- Lower Body
- Selected research articles, and books that discuss dominant behavior:
- Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction
- By Mark Knapp and Judith Hall
- Select pages: 136, 273, 418-419
- What Every Body Is Saying
- By Joe Navarro
- Select pages: 66, 102, 116-117, 124-125, 147-14
- Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction
- View Exercises With The Dominant Cluster