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  "textContent": "\n\nEvery commuter on every train in every city is running the same miscalculation. They assume sitting in silence will be more pleasant than talking to the person next to them. They are wrong, and psychologists have been proving it for over a decade. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Research keeps proving we should talk to strangers more appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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