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Every time we catch up with a friend, we share the stories of our lives, from the mundane to the profound. Swapping stories and especially secrets helps to create friendships in the first place. Now new research is providing some intriguing. ....
I’ve seen it a hundred times. In coffee shops, by the water cooler, and in networking events everywhere. An eager young entrepreneur attempts to impress a potential client with a lengthy monologue about their exotic experience. “I just can’t say enough good things about Bali,” they say, flipping out their phone and scrolling through an endless barrage of images. ....
So You Want to End the Conversation? So do most people, a recent study found. Plus: amblypigids, a company called Covid, and other staff recommendations in the weekend edition of the Science Times newsletter. Credit.Scott McIntyre for The New York Times May 23, 2021Updated 9:44 a.m. ET With vaccination spreading across the United States, social life has begun to bend toward a semblance of normalcy: dinner parties, restaurants, spontaneous encounters with strangers, friends and colleagues on the street or in the office. It’s exciting but also slightly nerve-racking. “I think there will be a period of heightened anxiety as we meet people face-to-face again,” Adam Mastroianni, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in psychology at Harvard, told me (over the phone). “I’ve heard this from a lot of my friends, that we re worried: Have we forgotten how to be with other people?” ....