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Joint attention is a ‘meeting of the minds’ that is critical to social, language, and cognitive development…
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240 |
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Regional background, individual personality, profession, social class, age, ethnicity, and birth order all affect how we use language to negotiate our social ecologies.
|
237 |
 |
Unrealistic optimism is a pervasive feature of human life; it characterizes most people in most social categories.
|
034 |
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…there is no question that social pressures nudge people to accept some pretty odd conclusions – and those conclusions might well affect their behavior.
|
072 |
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…we live simultaneously in two different worlds – one where social norms prevail, and the other where market norms make the rules.
|
068 |
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When social and market norms collide, trouble sets in.
|
069 |
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…once market norms enter our considerations, the social norms depart.
|
071 |
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…no one is offended by a small gift, because even small gifts keep us in the social exchange world and away from market norms.
|
073 |
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…just thinking about money makes us behave as most economists believe we behave – and less like the social animals we are in our daily lives.
|
075 |
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Once the bloom is off the rose – once a social norm is trumped by a market norm – it will rarely return.
|
077 |
