Posted on 05/29/2009 7:47:10 AM PDT by yankeedame
Simpler reason: To avoid awkward stares at others, in a confined space?
I wonder if this was before, or after, she went through the building ringing doorbells and running? No doubt she voted for Obama.
Generally, I’ll either stare directly at the eyes of the other person or share an embarrassing personal story.
why does the link go to a smiley gif?
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ftf-mastripieri/
why does the link go to a smiley gif?
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ftf-mastripieri/
Interesting article. As someone who has worked in tall buildings for some years, I strongly disagree with the notion that people act out of "fear" when they are in close proximity to others like this.
I think the single biggest reason why people act disinterested and detached in an elevator is that we don't like being in close proximity to others unless it is on "our own terms." In other words, we act the same way in an elevator that we do while walking down a corridor in a shopping mall. We ignore the people around us and pretend they don't exist because we simply don't know them . . . and their presence has nothing to do with what we're shopping for.
For some evidence of this, just get on an elevator in a building where one tenant occupies the entire building. People will usually act much different in this kind of situation. Even if they get on an elevator with someone they don't know, they're far more likely to engage them in random conversation during the elevator ride -- because they know up front that they have something in common.
sorry, dbl posted.
Maybe people want to see where they have been. Maybe this is the only time that some of us will ever rise above our current position. Maybe we are all just so dang insecure.
The link is fine.
Has your computer’s security been compromised?
Or we are just preoccupied somewhat with our own matters, and don’t really want to talk to strangers or stare at them.
There’s not much places to stare at in the first place..
pile of assumptive psychobabble bull.
A does X
B does X
B doing X doesn’t necesarily come as a result of A doing X, it’s because both desire the same result that occurs after doing X.
maybe. strange its only for this thread.
and hovering over the link provided by the OP does state the link is a gif.
my link works of course.
>Once, on the way up to my apartment, I met an old lady who got in the elevator on the second floor, pressed all the buttons from the third through the 22nd floor, and got out on the third floor with a grin on her face.
The best part of the article... and, coincidentally, the most verifiable.
...and hope that you have a bad case of gas, right?
PS — Be sure to lean on the “close door” button.
:)
The link is fine. Has your computer’s security been compromised?
The link does go to an image of two tiny smiley faces.
"Everybody's been real nice."
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