How Good Is Your Subcommunication Intuition?

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  1. Hyphy

    Hyphy Duke of Earl

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    subcommunication (n): information conveyed below the overt level, e.g. through subtext or implication. common examples include body language, eye contact, voice tone, facial expressions, how we touch, how we pause when we speak, who we’re with, the subtexts in what we say, and much, much more.

    Can you tell someone is lying by the way they move? How about the tone in there voice? Can you tell when someone is being genuine by which way their eyes look? Can you tell when someone like you or hates you without being told or the obvious subcoms(kissing, punching)? I bet the women are waaaaaaaay better at this than the men.
     
  2. Enraged Angel

    Enraged Angel Banned

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    I over analyze just about everything...
     
  3. Hyphy

    Hyphy Duke of Earl

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    Me too now.
     
  4. Face Eater

    Face Eater Banned

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    I am generally pretty intuitive when observing interaction between others but when it comes to the way people react to myself I am usually pretty lost and very paranoid.
     
  5. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    on a scale of 1-10, i rate 0.000000001
     
  6. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    yeah, i'm actually the same. or at least i tell myself i know what's going on between others and i don't bother to sit around and find out if i was right or not.


    also, your sig has confused the hell out of me tonight...
     
  7. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    Mine is perfect thanks for asking
     
  8. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    made of fail and old broken radar antennae
     
  9. Sitka

    Sitka viajera

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    I do alright.
     
  10. Americunt

    Americunt Corporate Hack

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    I can usually read between the lines, sometimes to a freakish extent.
     
  11. Autentique

    Autentique wonderfabulastic

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    Im actually very good at it and it sometimes bothers me, because people say something with words but their body tells me different. I know what they are really saying, but sometimes they prefer to believe what's coming out of their mouths and I let them.
     
  12. nakedtreehugger

    nakedtreehugger craaaaaazy

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    i'm so good at this that i'm often confused in conversation, because i hear what people mean, rather than what they say. and then i look like an ass.
     
  13. Unknown American

    Unknown American Rogue Capitalist

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    When it comes to business interactions, I am always right about peoples intentions and motivations.

    When it comes to women. I do not have a clue.:confused:
     
  14. Autentique

    Autentique wonderfabulastic

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    I know what you mean. It gets me confused too, but I mostly keep it to myself or react in a confused, I dont know what you're telling me kinda way.
     
  15. zen_arcade

    zen_arcade Banned

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    hey Ili I got a question for you
     
  16. nakedtreehugger

    nakedtreehugger craaaaaazy

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    see, i'm not smart enough to realize that's what's going on, lol! it's so blurred to me that i actually 'hear' them say it in my head. so i think they've said it. :eek:
     
  17. Autentique

    Autentique wonderfabulastic

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    yes?
     
  18. zen_arcade

    zen_arcade Banned

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    I know we only hung out a couple times, a while ago, but if you remember my mannerisms at all did you think my body language is inconsistent with what I actually say a lot of the time? like for example I'll say something mean but without any aggression, or I'll try to say something nice but it just comes out sarcastic instead? I feel like I do that constantly without meaning to, but then I'm super conscious of myself physically.
     
  19. Autentique

    Autentique wonderfabulastic

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    I think that is very easy to tell that when you're saying mean things you are just doing it because seeing how people react to it seems to be your idea of fun. At least for me it always seemed that way

    I dont think I remember you ever saying something nice :p haha, Im just joking, some of the things you said that were nice, did come across as being sarcastic because of how you worded things and just the way you said it, but I think this is just linked to what I said in the paragraph above.
     
  20. zen_arcade

    zen_arcade Banned

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    haha, I see what you mean.
    that's my trouble, half of me wants to play games all the time and half of me wants to be totally serious and I end up confused.
     

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