fandomhigh | Communication - Period 5

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

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

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

He tilted his head as if to say, "It's already brougtened, sweet thaang."

Hoshi didn't like being called "sweet thaang" even if it was nonverbal. She looked at the stack of chips Jack left on the table and doubles it, as if to say, "Bring it on."

Jack quirked his other eyebrow, and added half of another stack, as if to say, "Is that all you got?"

Hoshi had an "oh really?" expression on her face as she added another stack and an half of chips.

Jack matched her expression with his best "~~Ya Rly~~ Yeah, Really" face. And put in two full stacks.

Hoshi added all of her chips. "Let's see those cards," she commanded.

"Cards? We were supposed to pick up cards?" he asked innocently. Really innocently. Really. And pushed in all his chips.

"Less talk, more poker," said Hoshi. "I have a royal flush," she added, laying down her hards. Sure enough, she had an Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 of Hearts. "What cards do you have?"

"Full house, aces and kings," he said, laying down three aces and a pair of kings. He grinned.

Hoshi pointed to the handout that Mohinder gave them. "Royal flush beats a full house," she pointed out. Then she scooped up all the chips. If Jack tried to stop her, he was going to see how well Hoshi's aikido practice was paying off. ~~And that is an Andorian ice pick in her hand.~~

All Jack had left to play with was his smile. And his clothes, and he didn't want to walk back to the dorms in his skivvies. Or worse. "Guess you beat me. At poker," he clarified.

"I love this game," said Hoshi, grinning as she counted up all of her chips. "Where else can I go to play poker?"

"Maybe in the dorms after classes? We can make it a weekly game."

Communication - Period 5 - Thursday Dec 6

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