Communication - Period 5 - Thursday Dec 6

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Packs of playing cards were laid out around the classroom.

Mohinder looked up from shuffling a deck, laying it down in a spread on his desk.

"Good afternoon," Mohinder nodded at the class. "Today we'll be looking at two different aspects of unconscious communication."

"Often an emotional response will trigger a small fragment of behaviour - someone may twist their wedding ring when lying about an affair, or a poker player may blink when they have poor cards." Mohinder continued on about tells before breaking off.

"Alternatively, people may be affected by subliminal messages of which they are not even aware. That the subconscious receives directly, bypassing the filter of the conscious mind. The effectiveness of this persuasion technique is debatable, either in advertisement or propoganda." Mohinder paused. "Elaborate conspiracy theories aside, it is extremely unlikely that subliminal messages have a significant effect on the behaviour of a group."

"Take these cards, play and study each other's tells. What are you saying unconsciously? Can you control it?"

Awaiting OCD is up.

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Hoshi Sato

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Listening, chatting...

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As usual, Hoshi was taking notes. This could be useful for those times she came across languages that were difficult to translate.

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Jack was kinda confused. How could you communicate if you were knocked out?

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This wasn't new for Cassandra. She had spent a long time being surprised that people didn't know a lot of the things they were saying.

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Jack quirked an eyebrow at Cassandra. Is this right up her alley or what?

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She saw his eyebrow and raised him a head-nod.

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Jack saw her head-nod and bumped her a smile.

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John bounced droid baby Steve on his knee during the lecture.

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Rodney spent the lecture trying to keep his droid baby, Bob, quiet. He was mostly successful.

Playing cards...

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...and reading tells.

Instruction handouts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker) or handwavey, but no major bets, please.

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Poker and Hoshi? It was a match made in heaven.

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Jack quirked his eyebrow over at Hoshi. Was it a tell or was it a question?

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Hoshi looked over at Jack as if to say, "Put your money where your mouth is."

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Carmela looks at the instructions and pouts. It'd probably be considered cheating to just *ask* the deck what her opponents' hands happened to be, wouldn't it?

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Cassandra looked over, eyebrow rising. This should be really easy considering she already picked up on non-verbal signals.

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"Want to play?" Carmela asks, picking up a deck of cards and shuffling them.

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Summer glanced at the instructions. She could totally do this.

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Chris smirked. "Wanna play?"

Talk to Mohinder

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He's over here.

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Try not to end the world, 'kay?