9. Why doesn't everyone clear up?
Why Do We Do That?
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Why Do Some People Don't Tidy Up?
I am a bit of a neat freak. I like things to be tidy, and I can't organize my brain unless the space around me is sort of organized. As soon as somebody else has, even the same amount of carnage as I do, it's awful and abhorrent to me. But why do you think some people clean up and other people leave it? I don't know whether it's nature or nurture, but I do think it's to do with control in some senses. It's something Nicola Reihani, Professor of Evolution and Behavior at UCL, has been studying with an experiment on her co-workers. We have this kind of tension between what's good for
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