The Investigator. Less confining in body movement than either of the previous styles, the Investigator stance nevertheless protects those who utilize it from eye contact and undesired interaction. Investigators (primarily mature-late thirties or older-males) are quite as absorbed and thus unapproachable as Nesters. But unlike Nesters, the objects of their absorption are not personal props but the various facilities of the setting itself.

XREF: Connects to the Nester stance described earlier in the same taxonomy of unapproachable public behaviors.

XREF: Connects to the earlier Nester stance described in this same taxonomy of body language.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 890