Citta

"There is a shy, young man who finds a woman he knows extremely attractive. For months he has endeavored to work up the courage to ask her out, and finally... he does! To his great amazement, she says YES! The days leading up to the date, his thoughts are only on her. What her smile will look like, the touch of her hand in his. He walks about in a happy cloud of thoughts for days. The big day arrives. She looks as beautiful as he had imagined."

"His mind is more on her than the film. He sees the hero of the movie hold the heroine's hand and he does the same for his date, still too shy to look at her. As the movie goes on, he follows the cues of the actor on the screen, and he eventually puts his arm around his date! His heart is beating so fast, every cell in his body is in pure bliss."

A shy young man musters the courage to ask an attractive woman out and she accepts. He daydreams about her smile and touch in the days before the date. At the movies he forgets popcorn, returns, and sits without looking at his companion, then mirrors the on-screen couple by holding hands and putting his arm around her. He feels overwhelming bliss and attempts a kiss, then realizes he sat in the wrong seat beside someone he finds revolting. His joy vanishes and he flees, showing that perceived identity altered his emotional response to identical physical contact.

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