Hah! S agrees that teasing about the same topic can be dog-like or jerk-like depending on body language, and that there is a rule: across species, serious dominance body language is straight-on, and play body language is curvilinear.
The example we were discussing was my height--someone can tease me about being short in such a way that I won't mind, or in such a way that I will slap them down hard. Play teasing could involve pretending to loom over me, but bending the head in sort of a half-bow. Dominance teasing could involve standing as tall as possible and well within my personal space.
Proxemics and kinesics are fascinating. And for a poorly socialized geek, it's always reassuring to have an explicit rubric to fall back on.
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Date: 2010-05-19 05:55 am (UTC)The example we were discussing was my height--someone can tease me about being short in such a way that I won't mind, or in such a way that I will slap them down hard. Play teasing could involve pretending to loom over me, but bending the head in sort of a half-bow. Dominance teasing could involve standing as tall as possible and well within my personal space.
Proxemics and kinesics are fascinating. And for a poorly socialized geek, it's always reassuring to have an explicit rubric to fall back on.