The Importance of Treating Strangers Like Crap

Even though we like to think of ourselves as nice people, we sometimes kind of treat strangers like crap. And that sort of means we end up treating our future selves like crap too. I know this was something that researcher Emily Pronin and her colleagues had looked at. She mixed together a concoction of soy sauce and ketchup and water then asked her subjects, how much of this would you be willing to drink for me for science? They say about three tablespoons or so. So people are not being very nice to this other stranger. But here's the most amazing part: My future self will be perfectly fine with doing that, just like that stranger would.