Aaah but to fool misguided people who are looking for tells and body language is part of the fun of knowing how to use it.

I use what are commonly called signs of interest to throw people off in a business discussion, when you use sexual signals in a meeting without them being overt, it is an interesting study of human behaviour, I actually get fabulous discounts on many things when I go shopping.

It works for both males and females! :-)

Well, living with many stressed people and all the pressure on human these days especially in our region, I guess people will start producing mixed body languages in one session, so I will go with words.

And really, we have to trust words more than body language because of the technology we are living now, for instance internet, cell phones, customs, makeups are all examples of how poor body language will become or already is :)

For me I work online most of the time and dealings I make are almost through live chat or Email, which omit any presence to the body language in my life so I have to trust my hunch instead, and this leaves me with words only to analyze and make a good decision about the other person.

I trust the combination between their body language, the words they are saying and how they are saying them.