Comment

Comment by pfannkuchen

Why do they mask then?

It seems a little hard to psychologically disentangle what one does for social approval vs for other reasons. For example, maybe it feels emotionally uncomfortable to not mask. Is it because the subconscious is worried about disease, or because the subconscious is worried about social approval? Probably some of both, but if we removed one perhaps the external behavior would change, hard to tell.

Also IME it seems to cluster with other appearance related traits (e.g. type of dress, mannerisms, etc).

parent pfannkuchen 3 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton