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Talking To Strangers Terrified Me – Until I Learned About 'The Liking Gap'

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I think about the Mitchell and Webb line that says love involves “two people who are a little bit deluded in each other’s favour” quite often – it’s true, isn’t it? But when it comes to our self -perception, this bias gets more complicated. Most of us don’t have an accurate perception of our own attractiveness; more conventionally beautiful people rate themselves as less good-looking, and vice versa. And while a mathematically impossible 65% of Americans think they’re smarter than average, this belief wasn’t evenly shared: men and younger people were more likely than women and/or older…

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    Talking To Strangers Terrified Me – Until I Learned About 'The Liking Gap'

    I think about the Mitchell and Webb line that says love involves “two people who are a little bit deluded in each other’s favour” quite often – it’s true, isn’t it? But when it comes to our self -perception, this bias gets more complicated. Most of us don’t have an accurate...

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