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Best of: The Science of Making—and Keeping—Friends

A Slight Change of Plans

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The Liking Gap and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

There is a gap between our expectations of how much people like us and how much we think they like us. The good news is that people tend to like us more than we think. Believing we are likable and worthy of friendship love can bring out our best traits, while assuming rejection can evoke worst sides of us, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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