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Originally posted by the_chosen_one
for instance, Ziggy touches his nose then his ear whilst he's saying he likes Chanelle, you could argue that it doesnt mean he doesnt like her, but you couldnt argue that these are not 'self comforting' gestures and so one has to wonder why Ziggy is uncomfortable saying these things

Or he could just have an itchy nose and ear.

One of the more interesting psychological experiments Ive seen was with a group of 6 subject. Each were given a paragraph to read introducing a picture and were asked to remember what items were in the picture.

3 subjects remembered seeing a whip, a seal and a ball while the other three saw a cane, a dress and a ladies hat. All believed that there were two pictures. The truth however was that the pictures were the same the difference was that one paragraph said the picture was an advert for ballroom dancing, (a man with a tophat and cane and a woman in a ball gown and hat), while the other paragraph said the picture was of a circus advert (man with a top hat and whip with a seal balancing a ball).

Very much like the famous old lady/young lady picture 6 intelligent psychology students were fooled into thinking they were looking at two different pictures based only upon reading one paragraph.

What struck me from this was that if we can see the same thing in two very different ways after mearly reading one piece of text then what effect does years of experience make?

Hope I didnt bore you to death but it was a real eye opener for me, and hopefully relevent to the post .