How Others See You
Episode 50 min 57s

How Others See You

From Hidden Brain Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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. This week, we revisit one of our most popular episodes to look at how certain social illusions give us a distorted picture of ourselves.

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