Threats.
i formed this theory in secondary school -
an individual, upon entering a bus, (if given a choice and appropriate circumstances) will sit next to someone whom the individual deems the least threatening based on one's instinct to survive.
today, my theory was proven correct yet again: a lady entered the bus, and walked to the back where a few others and i were seated.
i observed as she looked around for a seat - she looked at the guy (a gruff-looking chinese man) at the back, and turned away. she walked towards my seat, got a good look at me, and turned to the side - only to meet another gruff-looking person (a malay man this time)
she then noticed a lady seated in front of me, and took the seat.
it all boils down one one's primal instinct - survival.
one would automatically choose the route which would prove the safest and not pose any danger to one's well-being.
in response to this: it depends one one's natural instinct to reproduce (which would produce the hormones responsible for the attraction), which would THEN link to one's instinct to survive. in order to survive, one must continue the lineage of one's species, and therefore the urge to reproduce would rely on the instinct to survive as well.
and of course, it does boil down to personal choice - but that's a different topic altogether. ;)
PS: no bmr concepts please, wei-xun. havent you got enough? haha!
it's interesting when one discovers the many little things that makes the world turn.
an individual, upon entering a bus, (if given a choice and appropriate circumstances) will sit next to someone whom the individual deems the least threatening based on one's instinct to survive.
today, my theory was proven correct yet again: a lady entered the bus, and walked to the back where a few others and i were seated.
i observed as she looked around for a seat - she looked at the guy (a gruff-looking chinese man) at the back, and turned away. she walked towards my seat, got a good look at me, and turned to the side - only to meet another gruff-looking person (a malay man this time)
she then noticed a lady seated in front of me, and took the seat.
it all boils down one one's primal instinct - survival.
one would automatically choose the route which would prove the safest and not pose any danger to one's well-being.
"What if I choose to sit next to a girl on a bus because the girl is totally hot?
The theory is incomplete!"
in response to this: it depends one one's natural instinct to reproduce (which would produce the hormones responsible for the attraction), which would THEN link to one's instinct to survive. in order to survive, one must continue the lineage of one's species, and therefore the urge to reproduce would rely on the instinct to survive as well.
and of course, it does boil down to personal choice - but that's a different topic altogether. ;)
PS: no bmr concepts please, wei-xun. havent you got enough? haha!
it's interesting when one discovers the many little things that makes the world turn.
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What if I choose to sit next to a girl on a bus because the girl is totally hot?
The theory is incomplete!
Ah yes. But then again, it just goes to show that I don't sit next to the girl because it's the route which is the safest.
We should have an experiment to prove the presence of a systemic curvilinear relationship between a where a person sits and the reason why he sits where he sits.
We shall do it in a field setting where we shall have a high degree of ecological isomorphism, but of course we will be compromising our ability to control the intervening variables, which might pose a problem in proving the causal relationship between the two constructs.
Pleasant dreams of BMR, Ian. :p
Not to mention the nonspuriousness of it all.
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