Two Strangers Kiss
This is a great video to see how well you read people. Look at the match-ups of strangers. They are about to kiss. Can you tell by looking at their faces (facial profiling) which pairs will physically connect on their first kiss as total strangers?
Look at their faces.
What do you think their preferences are?
Are they pleased with their match?
Are they attracted?
Do they look alike?
What does their body language tell you?
I will give you a hint: people who look alike are often attracted to teach other. People who don’t–usually aren’t!
I felt a wave of nerves rush over me when I watched this video. Do you think that is caused by mirror neurons? I do.
I wish I could infer what was going on more. Anybody have a strong idea of what’s going on?
I find the awkwardness of a couple of the men particular interesting. It seems like some get on the same page, or in the same ballpark pretty quickly, but a few don’t.
The two gay guys, the one on the right I think wants to go, and maybe the guy on the left is disappointed or something? And they don’t really kiss, the one on the right is doing bonding stuff and the guy on the left is kind saying no by closing off? The two gay women surprise me a lot, they connect very quickly, they even kinda react in synchrony without much nervousness, fear, or hesitancy, but this kinda makes it slightly mundane for me, special between them maybe, but mundane.
The exciting thing about this to me is the expressions of nervousness/excitement without awkwardness taking over. The joint venture of overcoming the nervousness. Things that stick out for me are: black beard doing chin to chest and looking up. He seems excited and maybe flirtatious, but slightly internally oriented with the asides (the laughs, it must be awkward to have the camera there). Ingrid swallows right before, the nervousness is nice to see. Basically every cut leads to a possibly incorrect inference.
I kinda want to pick this apart and see what other people see. This almost feels like a tv show where you pick favorites based on what kinda of things you see and think are important. It’s amazing sometimes that the way it is edited and shown can lead people to be on basically the same page even if that isn’t the complete truth. I wonder what conclusions a group picking this apart would come to that are pretty wrong.