Interested Body Language from Women (5 Pics)

How do you know if a girl is interested?

Her body language tells you so!

In this guide to reading women’s interested body language, we’ll take a look at five (5) different postures a woman can be in while with you and what each posture means.

Once you know what to look for, you’ll be a romantic mind reader – and won’t need to second guess the attraction of your date.

 

Women Use Posture to Signal Interest (So Do Men)

In a 1990 study, psychologist Karl Grammer of the University of Vienna seated pairs of university students who did not know each other nearby in a room… then excused himself for 10 minutes to “take an urgent phone call.”

Unbeknownst to each male-female pair, they were being watched and their body language recorded. At the end of the 10 minutes, Grammer returned and gave each of them a questionnaire. In it, he asked how much they thought the other partner liked them, how interested they were to see the other partner again, and how attractive they found the partner.

They Grammer checked each pair’s interest levels against the body language they’d used in their 10 minutes alone – and this is what he found.

 

Neutral Body Language Looks Like This

Here’s what it looks like when both man and woman are at “neutral” levels of interest in each other:

That’s our baseline. As we look at how body language changes at changing levels of interest, compare the new body language you see to the body language in this image.

 

Mutual Lack of Interest

When both man and woman are uninterested, their postures tend to look like this:

Both avoid eye contact. The uninterested man turns and tilts his head away from the woman. He leans forward, but tilts his torso neither toward nor away from her. His arms and legs are both open, and his hands touch his face.

The uninterested woman also looks away but tilts her head toward the man. She leans back and does not turn her body. She sets her head akimbo and touches her arms.

If you take a girl out and it looks like this picture, it might be time to wrap things up and text someone else… because neither of you is into the other!

 

Interested Man, Uninterested Woman

When the man is highly interested, but the woman is uninterested, yet looks at him, their postures shift to something akin to this:

The interested man turns his head toward the woman without a head tilt. He leans his body back but turns it toward the woman. He moves his head akimbo with his hands on his head or face, and he leaves his legs open.

The uninterested woman watches the man with her head tilted toward him. She leans back and points her body at the man. Her arms cross, with at least one hand touching her head or face, and her legs stay closed.

If you see this from a girl you’re out with, you’ve got some work to do!

 

Interested Woman, Uninterested Man

Now let’s flip the script. This time, we’ll look at an interested woman… with an uninterested man. In this situation, when the woman watches the man, the postures look so:

The uninterested man turns his head away and tilts it toward the woman. He leans back, with his body turned away. He crosses his arms, touching them, and crosses and closes his legs.

Meanwhile, the interested woman looks at the man, despite him looking away, and tilts her head toward him. She leans her body back and turns it away. She crosses both her arms (opposite from what an interested woman does when the man DOES look) and touches her hands together. She crosses her legs yet leaves a visible gap open.

When you see this from a woman you’re out and about with, what she’s telling you is she is interested – and trying to get you to reciprocate interest… without looking too eager, of course!

 

Mutual Interest

Now we’re talking – how do postures look when both the man and the woman are interested in one another? They look like this:

When both are highly interested but the woman looks away, the man turns his head toward the woman and tilts it away. He leans forward with his body turned toward her. He lifts his elbows and folds his hands behind his head. His hands touch his arms and his legs are crossed but open.

The highly interested woman, when the man is watching her, turns and tilts her head away from him. She leans back with her body turned away from him. Both her arms are open, with a visible angle between her arms and body. Her hands touch her body, usually somewhere between her hips and chin. She opens her legs to a visible angle.

 

How to Read a Girl’s Interested Body Language

Real quick: what’s going on with the female body language here? Why does she turn her head and body away when the man looks if she’s interested… yet keep her arms and legs open?

When the man is looking at her but not speaking, if she stares too, it raises tension. By looking and turning away, she relieves the tension – yet she still keeps her arms and legs open to signal her openness to an approach/conversation.

This might seem confusing if you look at her and she looks away. You might think her looking away means she isn’t interested. Yet key thing to keep your eye on is not whether she is looking back – it is how she positions her arms and legs.

If her arms and legs are open to you, or she is leaving them part open despite having them partially crossed, it’s an excellent sign she likes you.

So: talk to her… flirt… make some moves… and show her a wonderful time!

Chase Amante