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Feb 2022
50m 38s

Mind Reading 2.0: How others see you

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
About this episode

It's not easy to know how we come across to others, especially when we're meeting people for the first time. Psychologist Erica Boothby says many of us underestimate how much other people actually like us. In the second installment of our Mind Reading 2.0 series, we look at how certain social illusions give us a distorted picture of ourselves. 

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