Science Of Small Talk

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by Sam Sommers

I'll Have What He's Having

By Sam Sommers on October 21, 2009 in Science Of Small Talk

The scene: New Orleans, the French Quarter. I'm out with college friends to celebrate the wedding weekend of a fellow buddy. It sounds like the set-up for a Vince Vaughn or Seth Rogen movie, but this story doesn't end in Judd Apatow-inspired, plastic-bead-related debauchery. Instead, it's a tale of mundane daily life with a social psychological moral... Read More

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Sam Sommers, Ph.D., is a social psychologist at Tufts University and author of the forthcoming book Situations Matter

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