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It's uncomfortable knowledge and it can make us quite uncomfortable people to be around.
Indeed, our talent for hiding the truth from ourselves - designed to provide social benefits, specifically the ability to exploit others with conflicting goals - can make us quite socially vulnerable: if we are found out, 'Your entire environment may be oriented against you, all with superior knowledge, while you peer out, ignorant and hobbled by self-deception' (p. 176).
This research has shown that maybe overhead really doesn't matter that much, that giving can make us quite happy and when we are happy, after giving, we are more likely to do another good deed.
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In fact, it made us feel quite sick the first time we saw it, although by the eighth consecutive viewing it had got an awful lot funnier.
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So rumours began of stolen pencils, playground incidents, until she faced us down, angry and tearful, and made us - quite rightly - thoroughly ashamed.
Our decision making is also influenced by our emotional states and social world in ways both overt and subtle, making us appear quite fickle in what we decide.
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