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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Our Noisy Minds
The Fake Bride
Josh Gitelson: My Unsung Hero
One Head, Two Brains
Deb Pierce: My Unsung Hero
Why Conversations Go Wrong
Unsung Hero: A Cold Nevada Night
Humor Us
An Unfinished Lesson
Useful Delusions
Made of Honor
The Story of Your Life
The Story of Stories
Radically Normal
The Snowball Effect
The Match
Creating God
Is It Better to Know?
Love is Blind
How They See Us
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My Unsung Hero
A Slight Change of Plans
No Stupid Questions
Code Switch
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