Her new book Choke, which is based on her own studies as well as research by other
cognitive scientists around the globe, explains why stress causes us to screw up.
«I was struck by the exceptional magnitude of similarity among friends,» Carolyn Parkinson, a
cognitive scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said, adding, «our results suggest that friends might be similar in how they pay attention to and process the world
around them... that shared processing could make people click more easily and have the sort of seamless social interaction that can feel so rewarding.»