A Complete Stranger Understands You About as Well as Your Spouse Does

If you say “it’s snowing hard out there,” are you annoyed if no one gets up to shovel the walkway? Vexed, are you, by your intimates’ inability to see what you meant? Do you think a long love’s result should be near-wordless mind-reading? If so, here is some advice derived from the current issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: Grow up, dummy, and try saying what you actually mean. In this paper, researchers tracked how people in couples read between the lines when listening to their partners, and compared that to how well they understood total strangers. Results: No difference.Curious” Continue reading

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