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"   Sure, it&amp;#039;s hard to suppress an eye-roll when your chatty coworker talks about herself all the damn time, but according to new research, we all do it. Like, a lot.  Scientists at Harvard discovered that about 40 percent of our conversations are spent talking about what we think or feel\u2014some people are just more obvious about it.  Why are we so self-absorbed? Researchers found that talking about ourselves stimulates our brains the same way food, sex, and money do, so it feels really good.  Not only that, a series of studies found that most of us can&amp;#039;t stop talking about ourselves. In one study, researchers offered people money if they chose to answer questions about other people instead of about themselves.  Despite the free cash (it was only four cents per question, but still), people forfeited up to 25 percent of their potential earnings so that they could answer questions about themselves (how they felt about snowboarding or what they liked to have on a pizza). Wonder if it would have worked if the incentive was just, ahem, a little bit higher? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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