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Israeli researchers found that when someone expresses a negative emotion, we tend to overestimate its intensity – a bias that affects close relationships and shapes how we experience the world
Your life partner finishes a phone conversation with her mother and says it was "a bit heavy." She doesn't explain further, only shrugs her shoulders and adds that it was nothing special. You, however, hear between the lines that she was deeply hurt. You cancel whatever you had planned for that evening, listen again to the small details, offer a massage.
