wedrifid comments on The many faces of status - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Morendil 15 April 2010 03:31PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 16 April 2010 10:56:06AM 1 point [-]

And if we see someone behaving in a way that contradicts our perception of their status and some popular signaling hypothesis, we can call it countersignaling and have that feel like an explanation even though we failed to anticipate it.

What about when we know exactly what we are doing, predict it in others based on context and personality and find it the simplest way to explain what is going on?