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“fundamental attribution error.”
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
standard psychological Attachment Scale that measures your social style
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
several possibilities,
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
social topics dominated,
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Self-control and deliberate thought apparently draw on the same limited budget of effort.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Roy Baumeister, a world-renowned social psychologist, wrote similarly about the need to belong—about our fundamental and innate need to form interpersonal relationships, to maintain social bonds, to be part of a shared community.
Tal Ben-Shahar • Short Cuts to Happiness: Life-Changing Lessons from My Barber
Most of us know this to some degree. If we spend time with athletes we tend to get fit; if we spend time with criminals, it is only a matter of time before we break the law ourselves. In 2009, James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis published a
Jon Levy • The 2 AM Principle
We may not be earning as much and people at large may not care a jot, but we’ll have all the affirmation we need for ourselves in the knowledge that we are—on a good day—able to lend someone else a reason to live.
Alain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life
When people feel deeply judged by a rejection, their impulse is to feel bad about themselves and to lash out in bitterness. They have been cruelly reduced and they wish to reduce in return.