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By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC NewsPresident Barack Obama was intent on getting the upper hand as he greeted Russia's Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit on Thursday, according to body language experts who watched the frosty exchange.From a jacket-buttoning pause to a hard-pumping handshake, Obama displayed tell-tale signs of dominance after he alit from a limo in front of St. Petersburg's Konstantin Palace, where Putin waited to meet him, communication experts said.There was no outright hostility, but the chill between the two world leaders — at loggerheads over NSA leaker Edward Snowden and a strike against Syria — was evident in clenched-jaw smiles and lack of eye-contact and touching, the experts said."There's no real warmth," said Erik Bucy, a professor at Texas Tech University who researches non-verbal communication."It looks like Putin's basically a hotel greeter at a five-star establishment and Obama is coming out of the limo as the important invited guest he's not particularly thrilled to see."Body Language in Business," made a similar analogy."It was very odd. Obama is treating him like he was greeting a doorman," she said.She noted the significance Obama buttoning his suit jacket after exiting the limo."That’s another way men show power," she said. "It says, 'I know the attention is on me' and it’s a little bit rude to do that. It's grabbing the power for yourself."
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Topic: The Big Chill: A dominant Obama meets a cool Putin at G20 (Read 839 times)
