Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive: Difference between revisions

One possible reason behind this gesture is that when a person lies, they often unconsciously cover their mouth with their hand (as if to prevent the lie from escaping their lips). Thus, putting both hands in front of your mouth means that you're lying big time. Another reason is that in [[Real Life]] body language, people tend to automatically steeple the hands when feeling overly confident, or superior to whoever they happen to be speaking to. Someone who does this too often will quickly come across as arrogant. But this pose has the advantage of completely blocking arms and chest, making their body language impossible to read anymore.<ref>Since this pose does hide the character's mouth, it's also useful in animated works on a low budget - the animators only need to draw one picture of the character, not a collection of pictures that differ only in where the lips are at any given time.</ref>

* [[media:GendoGlasses.jpg|Gendo Ikari]] of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', as shown in the page image. His trademark covering-the-mouth variant is often called "[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-gendo-pose the Gendo pose]". For a while adding the "Gendo Hands" to existing works were a meme. (As a bonus, using the pose repeatedly helped cut down on animation costs.)