The Everyday Supercommunicators Who Get Groups in Sync
Conversations that flow often have a person at the center who speaks less, asks more questions, and isn’t afraid to admit their own confusion.
Conversations that flow often have a person at the center who speaks less, asks more questions, and isn’t afraid to admit their own confusion.
In this award-winning personal essay, sociologist Allison Daminger reflects on how her research on the division of household “cognitive labor” influences the decisions she makes in her own relationship.
The living wage calculator makes no provision for eating in a restaurant, repaying loans, saving for retirement, or taking a vacation. What does go into calculating a living wage? And does the term “living” allow companies to pay people inadequately while appearing generous?
To capture human emotion in all its richness, we have to broaden where and how we study it.
Most of us tend to think of randomness as being “well spaced.” Genuinely random distributions seem to contradict our inherent ideas of what randomness should look like.
Don’t ask to pick someone’s brain. You’ll get better results from inviting them to retrace their route instead.