I love that the opening lines of the rhesus monkey study are:
"Individuals value information that improves decision making. When social interactions complicate the decision process, acquiring information about others should be particularly valuable."
Doesn't this sum up a big part of what Epstein et al were up to, exchanging information about powerful peers and their movements?
On reading the title I remembered when my grandparents used to say “be careful what you write” when sending letters to family in East Germany/ Lithuania because they thought letters were intercepted in the communist regimes. How far have we come. It’s even scarier now with our current technology.
I literally have to do this when I email my former PhD students who are now back in China. I just take it for granted that everything I write is going to be monitored, and I don't want to accidentally get them in trouble because I phrase something stupidly. One of them however is much more relaxed in the other direction, and I hope one day to be able to ask him where his confidence comes from…!
I love that the opening lines of the rhesus monkey study are:
"Individuals value information that improves decision making. When social interactions complicate the decision process, acquiring information about others should be particularly valuable."
Doesn't this sum up a big part of what Epstein et al were up to, exchanging information about powerful peers and their movements?
On reading the title I remembered when my grandparents used to say “be careful what you write” when sending letters to family in East Germany/ Lithuania because they thought letters were intercepted in the communist regimes. How far have we come. It’s even scarier now with our current technology.
I literally have to do this when I email my former PhD students who are now back in China. I just take it for granted that everything I write is going to be monitored, and I don't want to accidentally get them in trouble because I phrase something stupidly. One of them however is much more relaxed in the other direction, and I hope one day to be able to ask him where his confidence comes from…!
Small potatoes, but aspiring Smart Potatoes will use "reluctance" or "compunction"--not "reticence" (please!).