What makes the elevator experience so awkward? [closed]

1. Why is it so awkward in the elevator?
2. Why do elevators make you feel weird?
3. Why people don t talk in elevators?

Why is it so awkward in the elevator?

Why are we so awkward in lifts? "You don't have enough space," says Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin. "Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm's length of distance between us. And that's not possible in most elevators, so it's a very unusual setting.

Why do elevators make you feel weird?

Elevator-Induced Dizziness

Since the body is at rest, physics says (and so do we) that the body will want to continue to be in that state of rest. However, the sudden movement of the elevator breaks that state of rest and the person begins to move upwards, giving them a strange fuzzy sensation in the head.

Why people don t talk in elevators?

A recent study has found that the majority of people would rather not make small talk with strangers while riding in an elevator. 65% of those surveyed preferred to ride in silence, a quarter of which because they simply feel uncomfortable to talking to anyone they don't know.