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Carlyn Beccia • A Researcher Studied the Most Common Last Words of Suicidal Men
Baumeister’s group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Roy Baumeister, a world-renowned social psychologist, wrote similarly about the need to belong—about our fundamental and innate need to form interpersonal relationships, to maintain social bonds, to be part of a shared community.
Tal Ben-Shahar • Short Cuts to Happiness: Life-Changing Lessons from My Barber
Men seem to be less able to cope with this kind of taunting than women, perhaps because reputations mean more to them.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
One’s reputation with others, and with themselves (self-esteem), is shaped primarily by their own individual attributes and accomplishments, not by nourishing an enduring web of inherited ties that are governed by a complex set of relationship-specific social norms.8
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
One is that each of us seems to have a natural social fingerprint in the way we allocate our social effort.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
in men it was usually triggered by threats to status, whereas in young women it was more likely to be initiated by threats to their relationships with a boyfriend.