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The hidden rules of everyday social interactions

How to Compliment

What topics get compliments, how do people react, what are exotic ways of praising?

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Performative Standing Around

How talking to oneself sparks spontaneous interactions.

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Get Caught Staring — The Beating Heart of Being Approachable

The unsung importance of read receipts in stranger-stranger preludes to conversation.

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Exhibition You: How Subtle Personality-Revealing Tells Entice or Repel People

Allowing potential approachers to try before they "buy"

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Never Split the Difference: Summary and Review

Where I engage in a fictional negotiation with the master himself.

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The Geography of the Room

The dramatic impact of position, orientation, and visibility on how often extraverts start conversations

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Bastions of Friendly

Settings and venues rife with raw extraversion in a keep-to-yourself world

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How to be Approachable

Why some people are constantly approached by friendly nearbys whereas others might as well be invisible

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The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

After feeling belittled, I journey into the heart of bragging and discover 17 modes of showing off.

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