Math, Productivity, Happiness and Decision-making
Apr 11, 2012, 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM | 740 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Elliott Collins, UC Berkeley, A&R Economics (Speaker)
Rejection therapy is a game for building social skills and confidence by calibrating our emotions to more accurately measure the consequences of interacting with new people. Humans evolved mostly in small tribes, where being embarrassed or seen failing could have lasting consequences. But in today's world of 7 billion people, these feelings are mostly over-calibrated: most embarrassing...