Your colleagues like you more than you realise…

2026-04-16

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Dr Gillian Sandstrom is a researcher whose work explores her fascination with our conversations with other people - whether colleagues, friends or strangers. She’s just published a fabulous new book ‘Once Upon A Stranger’.Her work says that we often have a ‘liking gap’ when we talk to people - we think they like us less than we like them - even if they are work colleagues. It turns out not to be true - our co-workers like us more than we realise.It's a brilliant discussion - and potentially a prompt fo...

Her work says that we often have a ‘liking gap’ when we talk to people - we think they like us less than we like them - even if they are work colleagues. It turns out not to be true - our co-workers like us more than we realise.

It's a brilliant discussion - and potentially a prompt for you to change how you live your life.

This week's newsletter is about talking to colleagues.

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