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Social awkwardness comes in many flavors, and chances are you've encountered most of them in the wild. Maybe you've even caught yourself being that person once or twice (we won't tell). Here's your ...

Having simple conversations with people can be extremely difficult for those of us who are socially awkward. We are constantly overthinking every word that leaves our mouth, making sure we laugh at ...

Have you ever been in the middle of a conversation with some friends when someone abruptly adds a comment that steers it off course? It may seem like this person was being rude, but often they're ...

"Awkward" is a subjective term, but generally speaking, awkward moments are just "deviations from small social expectations," explains Ty Tashiro, PhD, a psychologist and the author of AWKWARD: The ...

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In a recent essay in The New York Times called “We’re All Socially Awkward Now,” journalist Kate Murphy suggests that over the course of this pandemic human social skills have begun to get rusty ...

“I don’t know, I guess I’m just socially awkward,” my 22-year-old patient said with a shrug. “You’re really not,” I said with a laugh—a laugh I couldn’t stop from coming out of my mouth. I had been ...

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