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Gus Cooney

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Oct 2026

People underestimate how much dissimilar others want to connect.

People systematically underestimate the extent to which dissimilar others are interested in socially connecting, a phenomenon we refer to as dissimilarity pessimism. Across six experiments, in the lab (N = 795), online (N = 2,681), and in the field (N = 457), we document this pessimism across multiple kinds of dissimil...

Gus Cooney, E. Boothby, J. D. Vorauer et al. · 0 citations

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