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Capital Ideas is now Chicago Booth Review but unfortunately original articles are no longer available. If you click through you will be taken to the Internet Archive site to find an archived copy.
Just how accurately do people understand each other? For many years, psychologists like me have been trying to answer this question by putting mind reading to the test. We might, for instance, ask a group of people to tell us how much they like you, then ask you to predict how much each of these people will report liking you, and then compare your predictions with the other people’s actual ratings to assess your accuracy. Or we might ask you to look at pictures of people who are happy or sad, proud or ashamed, elated or afraid, to see how accurately you can recognize each emotion. How well do people perform on these tests? Are we as socially skilled as we think?
Content: Article
Author: Nicholas Epley
Source: Capital Ideas
Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development
Author: Nicholas Epley
Source: Capital Ideas
Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development
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