The Sunday Digest 027

Bossanova and slippers pair well together, I promise.

Jul 17, 2022

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Sunday Read: Text Your Friends. It Matters More Than You Think.

by Catherine Pearson for The New York Times

I’m notoriously terrible about reaching out to people if they don’t live in my area code. To anyone I haven’t reached out too in far too long: I apologize — I think I got worn out by all those Zoom happy hours when we were fighting for our lives mid-lockdown.

This week’s Sunday Read gives you more than enough reasons to reach out to a friend who you maybe haven’t talked to in a while. Here’s a little peek —

“Even sending a brief message reaching out to check in on someone, just to say ‘Hi,’ that you are thinking of them, and to ask how they’re doing, can be appreciated more than people think,” said Peggy Liu, Ben L. Fryrear Chair in Marketing and an associate professor of business administration with the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Liu is the lead author of a new study — published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology on Monday — that found people tend to underestimate how much friends like hearing from them.
She and her team ran a series of 13 experiments, involving more than 5,900 participants, to get a sense of how good people are at guessing how much friends value being reached out to, and what kinds of interactions are the most powerful.
In some of the experiments, participants reached out to someone they considered to be a friend; in others, they got in touch with someone they were friendly with but considered a weak tie.

Read in full here.

New Episode: Doomscrolling with Sally, Clothes I Can't Pull Off, and Houseguest Anxiety

A list of completely unnecessary anxieties you feel while being a house guest, five clothing items I wish I could pull off this season, and Sally joins the program to talk about doomscrolling — and how she tries to avoid it.

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