291. Hello, Stranger: Why Curiosity Beats Charisma Every Time
What keeps us from being more social? Nick Epley calls it a “mind-reading mistake.” We all think about what others think, particularly what they think about us. The problem, says Nick Epley, is that we’re almost always wrong. Epley is a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of…
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