Actual Video From "Awkward to Awesome: The Art of Making Conversation"

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Here are the scientific references for this particular video. (We’ve based the entire program on research and made it together with a behavioral scientist to make sure it works and isn’t just another dump of someone’s “opinions”.)

Ref1: Relational mate value: Consensus and uniqueness in romantic evaluations. Eastwick, Paul W.; Hunt, Lucy L. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 106(5), May 2014, 728-751.

Ref2: The Nature of Rapport and Its Nonverbal Correlates. Linda Tickle-Degnen; Robert Rosenthal. Psychological Inquiry, Vol. 1, No. 4. (1990), pp. 285-293.

Ref3: “Chronic thought suppression”. Wegner, D. M.; Zanakos, S. (1994). Journal of Personality. 62: 615–640.doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1994.tb00311.x

Ref4: Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: a meta-analytic review”. Aldao, A., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Schweizer, S. (2010). Clinical Psychology Review 30, 217e237.