Mind Spectrum
You're Not Bad at Reading People (You're Too Good at It)
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You're not bad at reading people - you're too good at it. A new brain study found that socially anxious people catch hidden meanings in a single glance that everyone else misses. So why do they still feel awkward? Because they use that superpower to torture themselves.
This week we break down a 2026 EEG study on social anxiety and the brain's reaction to eye-gaze meaning: Melani et al., "Social…