# read the room (awareness)

*Ordinarily means:* to understand the mood or atmosphere of a situation.

A model that detects when the self-model of a group no longer matches the actual state of the group, indicating trust has drifted outside its window.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [trust](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trust.reliance), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless)

**Through:** social

**Novel properties:**
- group-awareness
- implicit-trust

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read-the-room.awareness*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read-the-room.awareness.json*  
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