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I've been nodding the wrong way for my entire life????????????? No one tells me fucking anything!!
In my neck of the woods, it's nod down for someone you don't know or someone you are being respectful of, and nod up for a friend.
I remember watching some behaviour analyst person saying that it's because nodding upwards exposes the throat displaying vulnerability and comfort with the other person. Nodding down covers the throat. Because humans frequently attack and bite other people's throats.
I think it hearkens back to Hyperboria when humans had horns. Up to show the throat, and down to show the horns.
Bring back having horns
Evopsych pseudoscience has never been more throaty
I don't know if I ever learned this anywhere, but I totally do this subconsciously.
I only noticed it when a teacher pointed it out twenty years ago. He had it backwards and we had to correct him
You haven't, it's made up