How would u explain her body language?

Question

If you jokingly tease one of your quiet coworkers whom you're friendly with, she'll smile but then sink their head in their shoulders and tilt away. You make sure she knows u were just teasing and ask her if they knew that. She smiles and nods her head a few times but never says anything.

How would u explain her body language and reaction?

Answer 1

I think that she probably is already very shy, so she isn't an emotionally strong person. Even if she knows it was just a joke it can still hurt her feelings and she tries to be kind therefore she just smiles and nods and will never say anything. Try stopping it for little bit and just small chat and see if her attidute changes at all. (:

Answer 2

She seems to be a very shy person or she doesn't like that kind of tease!

Answer 3

Shy and uncomfortable with your actions, but polite enough not to confront you

Answer 4

Ok so i just put myself in that position and it was like she was thiking in her head "Oh geeeeez whatta b#tch" (Sorry if i'm being too  straightforward) But would anyone agree thats what you'd do if someone did that to you, Well if you didnt like them at least. Amd as for the smile, it seems like reaction of keeping it cool.

Answer 5

she seems timid.

Answer 6

You're just making her uncomfortable. Shy people tend to have no interest in being center of attention, they usually would rather be left alone. It sounds like she really doesn't care whether you were joking or not, she just wants to go back to what she was doing. It isn't that she is offended even, introverted people learn to live on thier own, not really concerning themselves with other people's opinions.

Answer 7

I agree with timid. Maybe kind of annoyed since she never said anything.

Answer 8

Just what is it your teasing her about, and is it something that is mentioned often as a "joke"?

Her body language is saying she is feeling hurt, embarrassed and awkward about the teasing, if not humiliated, by the taunting.

Please put yourself into her shoes and think how you would feel, if someone teased you.

What you may not know is teasing how ever harmless it seems, can be deemed as bullying and harassment, especially if the "teasing" is often, so for her sake and your own stop the teasing.

Answer 9

she is uncomfortable with whatever you said "teasingly."

She agrees that she knew that, but she is being polite.

she is VERY uncomfortable with what you said, maybe even embarrassed for some reason.

oh, yes, she has NO clue how to say that she is uncomfortable, and is too shy to explain.