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I like to think of a study that changed the way that I think about social signals. In this study, they brought people into their lab and they had them walk into a room of actors. The actors wereinstructed to send the participant a cue of social rejection. A cue of social rejection is very negative. It could be an eye roll. It could be a scoff. It's something that's designed to makeus feel like we don't belong. What they found was when the participant saw the cue of social rejection, their own field of vision increased. Their pupils dilated so they could see more of the