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Scientific Proof That No One Cares About Your Awesome Vacation
New York Magazine: If you’ve even traveled a little bit, you know this is true: People who can’t relate to your trip hiking the Inca Trail, or wine tasting in Tuscany, or Zorbing in New
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Noba Psychology: 2015 Student Video Award
The 2015 Student Video Award gives college students a chance to engage in active, creative learning by making short videos about important concepts in psychology. The most outstanding entries will become part of the Noba digital
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To Intensify an Experience, Bring a Friend
Pacific Standard: It happens all the time: You call a friend and make a date to go out to a movie. Then the two of you sit together in silence as you both keep your
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Savor Extraordinary Experiences, Feel Worse Afterward
Pacific Standard: Feeling out of sorts this morning? Maybe it was that recent trip you took to Machu Picchu. Sure, it was fun at the time—amazing, really. But it’s not like you could truly share the
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The Limits of Friendship
The New Yorker: Robin Dunbar came up with his eponymous number almost by accident. The University of Oxford anthropologist and psychologist (then at University College London) was trying to solve the problem of why primates
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Asking Advice Makes a Good Impression
Scientific American: What do you do when you can’t figure out how to finish a tricky task at work? Or you’re lost on those back roads? Or you’re trying a new DIY project in your