katydee comments on Mitigating Social Awkwardness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 03 May 2011 07:23:16PM *  0 points [-]

Unfortunately I think it will be extremely difficult to make people pay less attention to these cues, especially because there is a large body of research indicating that they are quite meaningful indeed-- see Ekman for more information.

Now, it's possible that in your case they are not, or convey meanings that you are not attempting to convey, but this would be quite unusual and I think many would have trouble with it.