Here’s the most replicated finding to come out of my area of psychology in the past decade: most people believe they suffer from a chronic case of awkwardness. Study after study finds that people expect their conversations to go poorly, when in fact those conversations usually go pretty well. People assign themselves the majority of the blame for any awkward silences that arise, and they believe that they like other people more than other people like them in return. I’ve replicated this effect myself: I once ran a study where participants talked in groups of three, and then they reported/guessed how much each person liked each other person in the conversation. Those participants believed, on average, that they were the least liked person in the trio. (View Highlight)
Sería interesante compartir esta información, ya que probablemente muchos en la audiencia también les pasa y esta evidencia puede ayudarlos a relajarse y tener esta información en consideración cuando suceda.
studies consistently show that the thing that makes humans the happiest is positive relationships with other humans. (View Highlight)
¿Qué dice la evidencia sobre lo que nos hace más felices?