Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
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Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

Why are frenemies more stressful than enemies? It’s the unpredictability.
Canada and the UK have both dropped Reid-style interrogation, finding it to be coercive and unethical.
Truth be told, if you wanted to focus on something, skip body language and laser focus on their speech. When we can hear someone but not see them, empathic ability declines only about 4 percent. When we can see someone but not hear them, the drop-off is a whopping 54 percent. Pay less attention to whether they cross their legs and more attention to
... See moreWhat is empathy? Empathy is when the line between you and another blurs, when you become confused where you end and another person begins.
people is to be curious. Even better is to provide yourself with some sort of external gain or loss that motivates you.
National Academy of Sciences has gone on the record, saying that “the Federal government should not rely on polygraph examinations for screening prospective or current employees to identify spies or other national security risks because the test results are too inaccurate.” With as little as fifteen minutes of training, people have been able to
... See moreSince we can’t improve our people-reading skills that much, we have to focus our efforts on making others more readable.
What is closeness? Closeness is when your vision of your “self” scooches over and makes room for someone else to be in there too.