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Mailbag Installment XVII: Ghosting, Narcissism, and the Modern Attention Economy
Why do people stop responding? Why do promising business connections vanish after emails, marketing campaigns, or conversations that seemed to go well? And why has ghosting become so common in modern dating?
In this Mailbag episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener struggling with a painful pattern: business outreach that goes unanswered and romantic connections that disappear after what felt like meaningful encounters. Rather than framing the problem as purely personal failure, this episode explores the larger sociological and psychological forces…
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