You apologise too much. You remember embarrassing moments from twenty years ago but forget where you put your keys. You check your phone for no reason and feel worse after venting. None of this is a character flaw. It is just how the human brain works. Simon De Lafronde and Marco Bellinari translate the science of human behaviour into stories that make you understand yourself a little better, and other people a lot more.
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You probably said sorry at least a dozen times yesterday for things that were not your fault. Research shows chronic over-apologising erodes your credibility and desensitises people to your genuine apologies. Here is what the science actually says.
The moment someone decides they do not like you happens before you have said a word. Princeton research shows judgments of trustworthiness form in one tenth of a second. Here is what your brain is doing in that window, and why the verdict is so hard to reverse.
