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Best Of: Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier With Nicholas Epley

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Are You Overly Confident?

Eply: Why do we misunderstand what others are thinking and feeling so often? We all have a capacity to do some mental gymnastics, to try to see things from another point person's point of view. If you're rich, you can think about what it's like to be poor. If you’re full, you can Think about what it looks like to be hungry. If you aren't tired, you canThink about what it feels like to be exhausted. You can do that mental gymnastics all inside your own head. But when we run experiments encouraging people to take others perspectives - how accurately they can actually guess another persons attitudes or beliefs is not systematically increasing accuracy. Sometimes

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