Eating alone in a restaurant asks for a kind of security most people underestimate, because the empty chair opposite is very hard not to read as a verdict
In 2010, researchers coined the acronym WEIRD for the narrow slice of humanity most psychology research draws its participants from, a slice that’s 96 percent of the field’s samples but just 12 percent of the world’s population, and I’m part of it
Eating alone in a restaurant asks for a kind of security most people underestimate, because the empty chair opposite is very hard not to read as a verdict
In 2010, researchers coined the acronym WEIRD for the narrow slice of humanity most psychology research draws its participants from, a slice that’s 96 percent of the field’s samples but just 12 percent of the world’s population, and I’m part of it
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