There are unwritten social norms in every context, which we tend to want to follow, but we may not always be sure of.
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They might be trying to hurt me somehow (which could be the response that’s a relic of our evolutionary past, Sandstrom says).Ĭontext matters, too, Georgie Nightingall, a conversation coach and founder of Trigger Conversations, a London-based organization dedicated to teaching people how to have better and more meaningful conversations, tells NBC BETTER. “We go into conversations thinking all these awful things can happen.” Compared with talking to your partner, your best friend, or your mom, the unknowns make it challenging and potentially intimidating, Sandstrom says. Talking to someone you don’t know is uncharted territory. Talking to new people is hard because there are so many unknowns Here’s what Sandstrom and others want you to know about how to talk to people you don’t know - and why it can actually do you a lot of good. The individuals who attended, elected to attend the event, so the sample was a somewhat unique group in that they were motivated to get better at conversations from the get-go, Sandstrom notes.
The results were published in the journal "Psychological Science" in the fall and presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention in February. “And nearly everyone says the conversations actually went way better than they thought.” But, they don’t think that their partner will find them as interesting in return, she tells NBC News BETTER. The results showed that both prior to and after having the conversation, people thought they would find their partners interesting, explains study author Gillian Sandstrom, PhD, senior lecturer in the department of psychology at University of Essex. The researchers led a workshop for individuals in the community to learn how to get better at talking to strangers, and asked participants about those conversations - both before and after they happened.
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