This photo documents something anyone can notice: While we’re sitting, we touch our mouths a lot.
The photo shows the full faces of 22 men; 7 of them are touching their mouths. I have noticed something similar at many faculty meetings. I started to notice this after I read about its observation in a study designed to measure something else.
I’ve known about this for many years but have never read an explanation. Do we enjoy touching our mouths — or is the absence of touch for a long time unpleasant? If so, why?
Maybe to hide emotions? I notice sometimes people hide their smiles, or hide a yawn. Perhaps hiding our emotions in some cases helped us pass on our genes and so the behavior has been encouraged via evolutionary pressures.
THAT is the odd thing you noticed about this photograph?
Who is that woman and what could she possibly be doing in that room?
Men in that photo? Oh, over on the right.
What about a means to sample the local microbial environment? A safer route to building immunity to bugs common in your environment by constant, low-dose intake (whether swallowed or inhaled)?
“Who is that woman and what could she possibly be doing in that room? ”
I count 6 guys who are eying her up. Maybe the reason they’re all covering their mouths is because they’re all saying “:cough: dude, check out the hottie :cough:”