Science Of Small Talk

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What You Don’t Know About People

By Sam Sommers on December 29, 2011 in Science Of Small Talk

You've been lied to. Or, at the very least, misled. Because it's simply not true that everything you need to know about life you learned in Kindergarten. And you don't know people as well as you think you do... 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. more...

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