Tag: social connection
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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #111 — When People Feel Connected, They Work Harder
Gregory Walton is a professor at Stanford who has studied the important effects of belonging on behavior. In one of his experiments, Walton (2012) found that when college students believed they shared a birthday with another student, they were more motivated to complete a task with that student and performed better on the task than…