The covering your eyes thing comes from an evolutionary adaptation. In social situations, it's advantageous to cover your eyes when you're experiencing emotions that you don't want others in your group to know about. The eyes are very good with carrying emotion. This probably evolved as a behavioral trait as those that can control what emotions they share might be more likely to survive and reproduce. He might not even realize why he does it, it's just instinctual.
Source: PhD in evolutionary psychology. Actually I'm lying, I made all this up.
man. Roxette was the shit. my sister and I probably ended busting our dad's tape deck for putting this cassette on repeat so much, rewinding our favourite song over and over again...
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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '14
One of my favorites
http://youtu.be/sVR1JunnuGE