Title : "Commuters expected to have less pleasant rides if they tried to strike up a conversation with a stranger."
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"Commuters expected to have less pleasant rides if they tried to strike up a conversation with a stranger."
"But their actual experience was precisely the opposite. People randomly assigned to talk with a stranger enjoyed their trips consistently more than those instructed to keep to themselves. Introverts sometimes go into these situations with particularly low expectations, but both introverts and extroverts tended to enjoy conversations more than riding solo. It turns out many of us wear ridiculously negative antisocial filters.... People underestimated how much they’re going to enjoy deeper conversations compared to shallower conversations. They underestimated how much they would like the person. They underestimated how much better their conversation would be if they moved to a more intimate communications media — talking on the phone rather than texting. In settings ranging from public parks to online, people underestimated how positively giving a compliment to another person would make the recipient feel. We’re an extremely social species, but many of us suffer from... undersociality...."From "Why Your Social Life Is Not What It Should Be" by David Brooks (NYT).
The top-rated comment: "Notably missing is the fact that many women protect themselves from unwanted, insistent intrusion and comments, even the possibility of being followed and harassed, by immersing themselves in phones or books in public places."
Yes, Brooks says nothing about sex or gender at all. Also nothing about boredom or the fact that trains are noisy.
Nothing about race or religion either, as the third-highest-rated comment shows: "As a white, Christian male, David Brooks has no earthly idea how dangerous it may be for some of us to 'strike up a conversation' with strangers...."
Reading these comments, I'm finding the word "Your" in the headline obtuse and perhaps mean.
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