Psychology says people who refuse to take the last piece of food on the plate aren’t polite, they grew up watching adults perform small acts of self-denial as a way of measuring who deserved what

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Psychology says people who refuse to take the last piece of food on the plate aren’t polite, they grew up watching adults perform small acts of self-denial as a way of measuring who deserved what
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The refusal to take the last piece of food on the plate is rarely about manners. It's a small inheritance from a time when watching adults perform restraint was...

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