demeanors

She makes sure to identify herself as a reporter, but “people’s demeanors sometimes change when you say you’re with the media.”

For this study, researchers presented 332 college students with one of four vignettes describing a statistics professor with different demeanors and mindsets.

“I don’t want to be stereotyped into playing roles of certain demeanors.”

But although she notices things that others miss, she also struggles to understand other people’s motivations and to read their demeanors, which makes her an interesting character to guide the reader through an unraveling mystery.

But if they were antsy about it, it didn’t show in their relaxed rapport and modest demeanors.