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The elevator stance
SIGHTING · CHAPTER IV
The elevator stance
HABITAT Elevators, lobbies, small shared boxes
In elevators, strangers spread out evenly, face the door and find something to look at that isn’t each other.16
ALSO OBSERVED
The jolt from a manager’s “Got a minute?” may run on the same lopsided math.3
SOURCES 16Hirschauer 2005 →
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