Polite gestures making your feel more comfortable is just pattern matching: "Most people im comfortable with do this gesture, I dont know you but you are doing the gesture, therefor you pattern match under the same light as the people im comfortable with".
This is predominately because we look based on our intentions. The fact you are looking at someone implies that your future intentions involes them. And then our mind pattern matches "what could someone want that requires being so close? Being a bit away is normally preferable to not run into each other and be able to clearly see around you." And of course our minds pattern match to forms of physical contact. Of course stealing is ruled out because we arnt being sneaky. So what other forms of physical contact intentions exist. Well mostly romantic or violent ones. And because its 2 masculine people, most people are vastly more familiar with violence between men then romance between them. So they pattern match the situation "They are looking at each other so wheir future intentions very likely involves each other, violence is the moat common future intention that would nessesitate being this close."
Polite gestures making your feel more comfortable is just pattern matching:
"Most people im comfortable with do this gesture, I dont know you but you are doing the gesture, therefor you pattern match under the same light as the people im comfortable with".
This is predominately because we look based on our intentions.
The fact you are looking at someone implies that your future intentions involes them.
And then our mind pattern matches "what could someone want that requires being so close? Being a bit away is normally preferable to not run into each other and be able to clearly see around you."
And of course our minds pattern match to forms of physical contact.
Of course stealing is ruled out because we arnt being sneaky.
So what other forms of physical contact intentions exist.
Well mostly romantic or violent ones.
And because its 2 masculine people, most people are vastly more familiar with violence between men then romance between them.
So they pattern match the situation "They are looking at each other so wheir future intentions very likely involves each other, violence is the moat common future intention that would nessesitate being this close."