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My s/o is convinced she has a tell when we play rock / paper / scissors, and maybe she does, but if so I don’t know it. I just know that if I observe her closely and don’t make a conscious decision about what to throw, I win 80% of the time.

Somewhere deep in my brain, there are neurons that developed for some more evolutionarily-relevant purpose and which are now a little disgusted with how they’re being used.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression might be one explanation.

You can somehow subconsciously detect those in your SO without doing it on purpose.




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