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into the anatomy of cocktail-hour chatter.

The key to bridging Greg and

Emily’s differences lies in the details.

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Some years ago, thirty-two pairs of introverts

and extroverts, all of them

strangers to each other, chatted on the

phone for a few minutes as part of an

experiment conducted by a neuroscientist

named Dr. Matthew Lieberman, then

a graduate student at Harvard. When

they hung up, they were asked to fill

out detailed questionnaires, rating how

they’d felt and behaved during the conversation.

How much did you like your

conversational partner? How friendly

were you? How much would you like to

interact with this person again? They

were also asked to put themselves in

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