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Psychology says longtime black coffee drinkers may forget whether they ever enjoyed it sweet, because the habit gradually became a story they told about themselves: that they could tolerate bitterness, need less than other people, and move through life without asking it to be gentler
Psychology says people who seem perfectly comfortable having no close friends may not be antisocial at all — they may have learned as children that closeness creates danger, then built such a self-sufficient adult life that nobody can hurt them, and nobody can truly reach them either
The advice to stay single until someone is the real deal has more behind it than romance: research finds a fear of being single pushes people to settle for less responsive partners, and a longitudinal study suggests marriage gives only a temporary lift in happiness
The uncomfortable truth about being taken seriously is that people judge competence largely by surface cues: a classic courtroom study shows hedging, hesitant speech quietly costs you credibility, and later research finds that sheer confidence raises your perceived competence even when it is not deserved
