Talking to Strangers: The Economics of Social Connection
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Nick Epley discusses the surprising findings of research on social connections and the costs of avoiding interactions with strangers.
New research shows that people are strikingly bad at predicting how good it feels to connect with a stranger. In this episode of The Pie, Nick Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and author of A Little More Social, discusses what more than 120 experiments reveal about why we avoid reaching out to others, and what that avoidance may be costing us.
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