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Caring What You're Sharing

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Effects of Sharing the Experience With Someone Else

A bad chocolate tastes more awful when someone else is tasting it too. Experiences aren't necessarily always enhanced or improved when youare experiencing them together with somebody else. Researches have found similar effects with other kinds of sensations. Scientists at mc gill university had subjects stick their hands and cold water, which hurts a ton, but the cold hurts even worse if a second subject was standing there going through the same event at the same time.

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