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For instance, when your team misses a super close shot at scoring, or when you lose a super tense game match by a hair.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There's a reel of a dad watching a sport game on TV with his infant son. The kid keeps looking at his dad for how to react, and seems to understand what's happening on the TV. When the team scores a point, the kid throws his hands up into the air and cheers, having seen his dad do that behaviour before.

Then he looks to his dad, who's got his hands on his head, saying "NO!". It was the wrong team that scored.

The kid puts his head into his hands, and collapses on the couch in his best imitation of his father.

You have years, perhaps decades, of watching people in your culture do this. So it feels natural for you to do.

[–] ICastFist 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Interesting, never thought about that. Now I'm curious how far back we'd need to go in different cultures until we don't see anyone doing this kind of thing - nowadays I think it's pretty common around the globe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

As a counterpoint to the above comment, there are also instinctual behaviours that we don't even know we're doing. The proof is in that blind-from-birth people have been seen performing the same sorts of behaviours as sighted people, but they can't possibly have learned by watching.

Smiling is one such proven example, as are hand movements when talking.

I'm not sure where the head-in-hands of despair falls with regard to this, but given that we see other great apes and monkeys do similar things in similar situations, there might well be an element of instinct to it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Watch it have been some ancient Navy SEALS hand signal meaning FUBAR and it caught on when the ancient warrior automatically used it as he saw his hut burning down from an accidental fire. Now, all of humanity uses it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Mirror neurons!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good point. Would there be cultures that don't do this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Probably, but I'm not familiar enough with all cultures to give examples.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t know, but I like having the name for this be surrender cobra:

Surrender Cobra Compilation gif

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Now I just need to find a reason to use this term!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Because you're trying to keep your brain from exploding!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

hands-on-head is nature's helmet

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's things like this that feel weirdly tragic; that our ancestors went through so much shit that only the ones with weird reflexes to grab their cranium made it. Young enough to have not had kids yet mind you. Other kids reacted in other ways, but they didn't survive. And so here we are, grabbing our heads when our team doesn't score, a chromosomal echo of some brutal day in the Kenyan Great Rift Valley..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Holy shit that actually makes sense

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure that's a learned cultural behavior.