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People-watching

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to try to interpret or guess at another person's story, interactions, and relationships with the limited details they have. This includes speech in action, relationship interactions, body language, expressions, clothing, activities and
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For some people, it is considered a hobby, but for many others, it is a subconscious activity they partake in every day without even realizing it. People-watching is distinguished from
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is the act of observing people and their interactions in public. It involves picking up on
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may accompany the activity, as documented by the humorous blog
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People watching
People Watching
PeopleWatching

idiosyncrasies
crowd
Eavesdropping
Overheard in New York
naturalistic observation
street photography
"People Watching: Harmless or Perverted?"
"People-Watching in Paris"
"The neuroscience of people watching: how the human brain makes sense of other people's encounters"
doi
10.1111/nyas.13331
hdl
1983/1e73b5d8-848d-40e0-a5c1-80392dcfae20
ISSN
0077-8923
PMID
28405964
S2CID
24422967
"People-Watching: Here’s Looking at You"
New York Times
"How to Begin People Watching"
"Street photography now"
BBC News
Categories
Anthropology

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