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There has been much speculation about the hypothesis that eye-rolling is an evolutionary trait of women, which would explain why it is performed more by females than their male counterparts. Psychologists suggest that it was developed as "a low-risk way to express aggression and disapproval". Women
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among humans. When studying exclusively adolescent females, the eye-roll gesture was observed to be the most prominent response to displeasure. Thirteen-year-old girls showed eye-rolling to be the main sign of aggression toward their peers in social situations. Eye-rolling is often accompanied by
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response to an undesirable situation or person. The gesture is used to disagree or dismiss or express contempt for the targeted person without physical contact.
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