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Say Thank-You
To better understand how people express gratitude in normal life, anthropologist Simeon Floyd, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands and his colleagues
Floyd’s team left cameras in household and community settings and captured more than 1,500
They found that in every culture, people fulfilled requests, but expressions of gratitude, such as saying “thanks” or nodding in
English and Italian speakers had slightly higher rates of gratitude expression—14.5 percent and 13.5 percent of the time,
Cha’ palaa speakers had the lowest
Also surprised by the findings was David Peterson, a linguist (语言学家) who developed the
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