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<\/a>Cue<\/strong>: Oddball Handshake (The).<\/p>\nSynonym(s)<\/strong>: Secrete Handshakes.<\/p>\n Description<\/strong>: Handshake that often include bumps, slaps, flicks and clicks.<\/p>\n In One Sentence<\/strong>: The oddball handshake symbolizes camaraderie and friendship.<\/p>\n How To Use it<\/strong>: Create your own unique handshake to create a strong individual bond with another person whom you share common interests. Players in sports such as baseball can benefit by creating their own handshake to bolster team spirit. Close members of cliques can also benefit since it is a shared greeting that is only known to the members involved.<\/p>\n Context<\/strong>: General.<\/p>\n Verbal Translation<\/strong>: \u201cLet\u2019s do a weird and unique handshake together so we can build camaraderie and friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n Variant<\/strong>: See Country Handshake (The)<\/a>, Cold Dead Wet Fish Handshake<\/a>, Double Gripper Politician Handshake or Double Hander (The)<\/a>, Short Grabber\/Finger Grabber Handshake<\/a>, Oddball Handshake<\/a>, Palm Up, Palm Down and Palm Even Handshakes, Stiff Arm And Thrust Forward Handshake<\/a>, Death Grip Handshake<\/a>, Wrench Forward Handshake<\/a>, Undershaker Handshake<\/a>, Wrist Hold Handshake<\/a>, Wrist Hold Handshake and Upper Arm Grip Handshake<\/a>, Limp Fish Handshake<\/a>, Teacup Handshake<\/a>, Arm Twister Handshake (The)<\/a>, Firm handshake<\/a>, Fist Bumping<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cue In Action<\/strong>: The baseball player returned to the dugout and did a unique handshake for each player he met on his way back.<\/p>\n Meaning and\/or Motivation<\/strong>: This is the sort of handshake your teenage son or daughter comes home with in effort to confusing the heck out of you! It\u2019s the handshake that has you saying \u201cYou do what with what, then what?!?\u201d It often includes bumps, slaps, flicks and clicks.<\/p>\n This handshake is fine amongst casual friends but please avoid this on a job interview or with other employees. It does however show a relaxed atmosphere and has its place between friends.<\/p>\n Cue Cluster<\/strong>: The body language surrounding the oddball handshake includes open body language that lacks tension, palms up, loose torsos and relaxed, smiling faces.<\/p>\n Body Language Category<\/strong>: Comfort body language, Childlike playfulness, Friendship touching or friendly touching, Open body language, Rapport or rapport building, Social touching.<\/p>\n Resources: <\/strong><\/p>\n Astr\u00f6m, J ; Thorell, L H ; Holmlund, U ; D’Elia, G. Handshaking, personality, and psychopathology in psychiatric patients, a reliability and correlational study. Perceptual and motor skills 1993, Vol.77(3 Pt 2): 1171-86.<\/p>\n Chaplin William F.; Phillips Jeffrey B; Brown Jonathan D.; Clanton Nancy R.; Stein Jennifer L.; 2000. Handshaking, gender, personality, and first impressions Journal of personality and social psychology. 79(1): 110-117.<\/p>\n Dolcos, Sanda ; Sung, Keen ; Argo, Jennifer J ; Flor-Henry, Sophie ; Dolcos, Florin. The power of a handshake: neural correlates of evaluative judgments in observed social interactions. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 2012 24(12): 2292-305.<\/p>\n Fisher, J; Rytting, M and Heslin, R. 1976. Hands touching hands: affective and evaluative effects on interpersonal touch, Sociometry 39: 416\u2013421.<\/p>\n Frumin, Idan; Ofer Perl; Yaara Endevelt-Shapira; Ami Eisen; Neetai Eshel; Iris Heller; Maya Shemesh; Aharon Ravia; Lee Sela; Anat Arzi and Noam Sobel. A Social Chemosignaling Function for Human Handshaking. eLife 2015. 4:e05154
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