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aidrocsid  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why people are terrible

Even beyond that, the normal social pressures we feel that we often don't even recognize fail to come into play. It's harder to defy social norms when people are looking at us and we have to watch their reactions.

I have a strong suspicion that this is also why people are so terrible at communicating and prone to anger in regard to driving, and why small things like hand signals and nods can go such an incredibly long way toward making the difference.