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Does Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" actually help us find people more interesting?
I'd bought Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People at a used book store years ago and later read it. The message I took away from it was that if we lead people to believe that we find ...
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Transactional Analysis: Dealing with a "Rebellious Child" [closed]
Transactional Analysis analyzes social transactions to determine the ego state of the patient (whether parent-like, childlike, or adult-like) as a basis for understanding behavior.
A Child ego state ...
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How to use Social Penetration Theory to increase closeness with someone who doesn't normally talk about their feelings
I recently heard about Social Penetration Theory where the basic principle is that "in relationships, as people disclose more about themselves over time, those relationships develop layer by layer, ...