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The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice
Abstract
Two experiments revealed that (i) people can more accurately predict their affective reactions to a future event when they know how a neighbor in their social network reacted to the event than when they know about the event itself and (ii) people do not believe this. Undergraduates made more accurate predictions about their affective reactions to a 5-minute speed date (n = 25) and to a peer evaluation (n = 88) when they knew only how another...
Paper Details
Title
The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice
Published Date
Mar 19, 2009
Journal
Volume
323
Issue
5921
Pages
1617 - 1619