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This clearly says people prefer being lied to, but even from a consequentialist perspective, dishonesty seems like a bad idea. Has research explored alternatives like honestly admitting you’d rather not talk about X?
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I think the main effect of breaks, evenings, weekends, holidays, vacations, etc. is just to do something engrossingly different for a while, so that you will temporarily forget the stress states from the last thing you were doing. So they can be other productive activities.
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I like this as entertainment. We can imagine the satisfaction of getting to say what we know would be rude to actually say, and so don't actually say.
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Can't stand stuff like this. Sanctimoniously mocking other people for the harmless status markers within their social milieu - driven by the absurd assumption that the mocker's own accent and self-presentation weren't shaped by exactly the same kinds of forces. twitter.com/TansuYegen/sta…
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Who are these people? OF COURSE most all studies are using standard methods on standard topics.
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You can think about contrarian or standard topics, using contrarian or standard methods. Which is your fav combo?
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