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Thursday, July 21, 2022

Friends enjoy being reached out to more than we think

THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED:  Study: Too little salt may worsen outcomes for common type of heart failure.


MARK JUDGE:  Ari Fleischer is Wrong — the Media Are, in Fact, Your Enemy. “As I will argue in a forthcoming book, the American media is now the equivalent of the Stasi, the diabolical East German secret police who acted like a violent criminal gang under communism. The Stasi engaged in violence, threats, and lies to make people turn on friends and family members, all in the service of creating some absurd socialist utopia. The American press today is no different.”


Friends enjoy being reached out to more than we think

The Surprise of Reaching Out: Appreciated More than We Think, by Peggy Liu, PhD, University of Pittsburgh; SoYon Rim, PhD, William Patterson University; Lauren Min, PhD, University of Kansas; and Kate Min, PhD, Wheaton College. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published online July 11, 2022.

“People are fundamentally social beings and enjoy connecting with others. Sometimes, people reach out to others—whether simply to check-in on how others are doing with brief messages or to show that they are thinking of others by sending small gifts to them. Yet, despite the importance and enjoyment of social connection, do people accurately understand how much other people value being reached out to by someone in their social circle? Across a series of preregistered experiments, we document a robust underestimation of how much other people appreciate being reached out to. We find evidence compatible with an account wherein one reason this underestimation of appreciation occurs is because responders (vs. initiators) are more focused on their feelings of surprise at being reached out to. A focus on feelings of surprise in turn predicts greater appreciation.

 We further identify process-consistent moderators of the underestimation of reach-out appreciation, finding that it is magnified when the reach-out context is more surprising: when it occurs within a surprising (vs. unsurprising) context for the recipient and when it occurs between more socially distant (vs. socially close) others. Altogether, this research thus identifies when and why we underestimate how much other people appreciate us reaching out to them, implicating a heightened focus on feelings of surprise as one underlying explanation.”



In Custodia Legis:  by Anna Price– “Each August, the House and Senate take a summer recess from Washington, D.C., during which they spend time in their respective legislative districts. While the legislators are working away from Capitol Hill, the Law Library of Congress will continue responding to reference inquiriesand presenting webinars on a variety of topics. 

August’s installment of the orientation to legal research series will focus on federal regulations and the resources available to researchers who want to learn more about the origins of federal agency rules and regulations. Also in August, we are hosting our Congress.gov webinar, which covers the website’s basic and advanced search capabilities. More information about the Law Library’s upcoming U.S. law webinars and registration links can be found below…”


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