When you have “tall Zoom energy” and show up to the office for the first time, things can get awkward.
, for example, is 4-foot-11, and she loves when people tell her she seems taller on screen. “Usually I’ll follow up with an ‘Oh my God, thank you!’ ” she said, “because to me, it means I have confidence or I come across in an authoritative way, but not being a jerk about it.”
“I perceive most people to be about my height,” he told me. “When I look at all of the Zoom boxes and I have my video on, all of us are the same height basically.” Rule, the professor, said that many of people’s beliefs about height seem to be baked into human nature. And indeed, it can be hard to fight evolutionary psychology. For example, when Albert Eiffes, a 6-foot-4, 38-year-old project manager in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, went into his office one day earlier this year, he found it hard to focus on anything but the height of one of his co-workers.“This co-worker, I had never met him in person,” he said. “Mentally, he was my height. And then I get there and meet him for the first time in person.
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