Why do we put our hands on our heads when something makes us also want to yell "NO!"

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ICastFist@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

For instance, when your team misses a super close shot at scoring, or when you lose a super tense game match by a hair.

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jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t know, but I like having the name for this be surrender cobra:

Surrender Cobra Compilation gif

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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Now I just need to find a reason to use this term!
  
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
hands-on-head is nature’s helmet

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- FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s things like this that feel weirdly tragic, that our ancestors went through so much shit that only the ones with weird reflexes to grab their cranium made it. (Young enough to have not had kids yet mind you). And so here we are, grabbing our heads when our team doesn’t score, a chromosomal echo of some brutal day in the Kenyan Great Rift Valley…
  
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MelonYellow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Because you’re trying to keep your brain from exploding!

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