Circling Science

Authenticity, vulnerability and honesty

Shows that feeling authentic, being honest and disclosing are different things, each with its own evidence.

Region
Between two people
Distance
Near
Studies what a circle does, in live interaction.
Scale
One person · Two people
Researchers to read first
Anna Bruk, Emma E. Levine and Alison P. Lenton

1 work from this field, lit on the map

Moves it sheds light on

Our reading. None of these fields tests a move inside a circle.

  • Reveal

    People judge their own shows of vulnerability more harshly than others judge them.

    Bruk et al. · 2018

  • Own it

    Measures when people feel their words are their own rather than shaped by what others expect; owning language itself hasn’t been studied.

In the catalogue

  1. Beautiful mess effect: Self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability.

    Bruk et al. · 2018

    Experiment