Make a clean online break with pests
March 30, 2011
CNN:
Fact: In this crazy game called life, you will encounter people with whom you won’t want to engage.
Some of these people will not realize they annoy you, and as you do your best to avoid them in social situations and eradicate their existence from your hippocampus, they will loom ever larger in your life.
People are cowards. We don’t like to deliver bad news or be the instigator of others’ negative feelings — even if, in shrinking back and twiddling our thumbs, we hurt others more in the process.
People are more comfortable letting bad things happen than actively causing them, likely because crimes of commission look worse to others, according to a a new study in Psychological Science.
Read the whole story: CNN
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