The science of gift giving
Feeling a little sheepish because you got your sister socks, and she got you a new purple iPod? Evolution can be blamed for the guilt ? if not your poor taste in gifts. Jonah Lehrer, author of “Proust Was a Neuroscientist,” gives us the dirt on why we feel the need to give as much as we receive.
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