摘编自《华尔街日报》2017年4月8日如果时常往来于熙熙攘攘的公共场所,你一定会发现,拜沉迷电子设备所赐,人们不再闲聊了。我们目不转睛地盯着手机屏幕,越来越不愿与陌生人交流。那么,不再闲聊,我们错过了什么?越来越多的研究表明,闲聊能带来意想不到的好处。2014年发表在《个性与社会心理学通报》(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)上的一项研究显示,和遇到 Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal April 8, 2017 If you come and go in bustling public places from time to time, you’re bound to find out that thanks to the obsession with electronic devices, people stop chatting. We stared intently at the phone screen, more and more reluctant to communicate with strangers. So, no longer chat, what have we missed? More and more research shows that chatting can bring unexpected benefits. A 2014 study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin showed that