Why Does Being Liked Matter So Much to Us?

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1:14In ancient times, people relied on social groups for food, shelter, and security, so you needed to be accepted to meet your basic needs and survive. But today society has evolved and so have technologies that help us meet many of those same needs on our own. Likeability as a result has become less a mechanism for survival and more a way that we measure our self-worth. That's why today many of us still equate being good or worthy of love with the number of people who like us even when we don't like them all back. But one of our authors says the best way to fulfill this desire to belong is not by looking outward to others, but inward to ourselves.

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