The Linging Gap

You ran a similar experiment with first year college students who were getting know one another as potential dor mates at what would happen in that experiment. So in that case, we are atually curious to see whether we would see a laking gap as people increasingly get to know each other over time. And so we recruited college roommates who have just landed at school for the first time in september. and asked them how much they liked their roommates and how much they thought their roommates liked them. People actually underestimated how much their roommate liked them for several months, like through the fall, into the spring, and final by the end of the year, we didn't see that