Small Talk = Perilous?
Here’s an interesting little blog post about the possible relationship between small talk and unhappiness. The experiment in question appears to be flawed in a number of obvious ways, but its conclusions nevertheless seemed to me to be true to a phenomenon I’ve often observed: a kind of weariness or sense of defeat among those who for whatever reason stay on the surface of conversation.
http://trueslant.com/wrayherbert/2010/03/01/the-perils-of-small-talk/
