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Research on Baboons’ Capacity for Speech Sounds Makes International Splash
Nonhuman primates can do a lot of things that humans do — they can use tools, teach each other skills, and use sound to communicate. But they don’t seem to be capable of making human-like
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Don’t be a Ross. Here’s how to keep your friends hooked when you speak
Hindustan Times: Do you feel like Ross Geller talking about dinosaurs every time you start narrating your personal experiences among friends? Does it look like your friends are getting bored while listening to your stories?
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Ya Had to Be There: Science Confirms We’re Bad at Telling Stories
LiveScience: Go ahead: Tell that same story about your college shenanigans the next time you’re out with your friends. They’ll thank you for it. A new study finds that people prefer hearing familiar stories to
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Scientific Proof That No One Wants to Hear Your Vacation Stories
New York Magazine: It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you get back from a vacation and someone says “I want to hear about it!” what they really mean is “I am being polite
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Oldies but goodies
The Boston Globe: WE OFTEN ASSUME that people don’t want to hear the same old story. But psychologists at Harvard and the University of Virginia wondered if people “worry too much about boring their listeners
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To Please Your Friends, Tell Them What They Already Know
We love to tell friends and family about experiences we’ve had and they haven’t—from exotic vacations to celebrity sightings—but new research suggests that these stories don’t thrill them quite as much as we imagine.
