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How curious Asking people questions about their lives is the secret sauce to human connection – so why do people ask so few, asks David Robson I WAS at a birthday party recently when I found myself sitting next to a writer I didn’t know. Two hours later, I knew all about the surrealist novel he was writing, but he found out very little about me, since he didn’t ask a single question in return. I am sure this will be familiar to many readers, so I was delighted to come across some new work on “interpersonal curiosity” by Niobe Way, a professor of applied psychology at New York University. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3609期 · 2026年8月22日,David Robson。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。