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there have been dozens of demonstrations of people making incorrect predictions, over-weighting the influence of traits & undervaluing the power of the situation when attempting to explain people's behavior. This cognitive illusion is called: fundamental attribution error; we fail to appreciate that the roles people are forced to play in certain situations constrain behavior

Online daters engage in deception 81% lie men tend to lie about height women about weight both lie about their age discrepancies of 10 years were observed weight was under reported by 35 pounds and height was over reported by 2 inches
Meeting online reduces the chances of overall divorce by 7.7% to 6%
The educational attainment and employment tend to predict martial longevity

2004 to 2014 1/3rd of all marriages in the US began with online relationships compared to a fraction of that in the decade before half of marriages began dating sites

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people who read literary fiction (as opposed to popular fiction or nonfiction) were better able to detect another person's emotions

empathy requires the ability to switch between different perspectives on the same situation or interaction this requires using the brain's daydreaming mode (the task-negative network) & it involves the prefrontal cortex, cingulate & their connections to the temporoparietal junction Republican & Democrats don't use these empathy regions of their brains when thinking about each other

a 30 year old man died in Guangzhou China after playing video games continuously for 3 days. Another man died in Daegu Korea after playing video games almost continuously for 50 hours, stopped by only going into cardiac arrest
rats with a signal the the pleasure signal directly to the nucleus accumbens they liked it so much they did nothing else they pressed till they died from starvation or exhaustion

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