What is it about?
Daily life presents us with many opportunities to talk to new people around us, but we often choose to keep to ourselves. This research suggests that by doing so, we're missing not only an opportunity for social connection, but also for learning. It turns out that talking to strangers leads to more learning than people anticipate.
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Why is it important?
Between working from home, having goods and groceries delivered, and exclusively banking online, it's increasingly possible to conduct life without ever engaging face-to-face with another human being. The average person can now avoid casual conversation with strangers more often than not. But is that a good thing?
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This page is a summary of: Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206992119.
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