For years, talking to yourself carried an unfair reputation. Parents scolded children for it, teachers considered it a distraction, and adults often worried it made them look eccentric. Yet, modern ...

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Do mosquitoes talk? Yes, chorused three researchers at the Cornell University Medical College last week. The savants proudly announced in Science that they had succeeded in amplifying and recording ...

Depending on your natural level of extraversion, you may view chit-chat with strangers more like a mild form of torture than a mood booster (as an introvert, I hear you). But the research is clear: ...