17. “I think he should pay for everything because he’s the man”
Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi
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The Power of the Situation
i never appreciated that secretive about his finances. A, no, ecause i could kind of distestimate, but he 's always been very secretive. As you study this stuff, you realize that behavior is actually a lot different than most of us think. You also start to realize what they call the power of the situation in social psychology. In short, the situation around you has a profound effect on what you're doing. Most people have no idea when you pointed out, hey, we ran an experiment and you did x, because of why we isolated the variables. They get mad. Why? Because we desperately want to be in control of our own behavior, but we're not
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