108 – Rudi Hoffman on How to Beat Death and Taxes
The Bayesian Conspiracy
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How Well Do People Read Other People in Real Life?
I usually think I can tell if people are like positively or negatively reacting to me, but maybe I should not think that at all. You know, when you have an anxiety disorder or various kinds of mental illnesses that do the sort of thing you read into sideways glances. My family has a very different way of communicating and reacting to things than other people who grew up with other family structures. And they showed there's been studies where depressed people were given a bunch of photos of people with neutral expressions and they read them as hostile or as sad Or they were much more likely to rate the people's expressions as looking something negative.
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