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Observation studies of teenagers using social media have discovered one peculiar behaviour in particular that sets ____ apart ― teenagers will post or share something on social media, but then they’ll monitor the post to gauge the volume of reactions.

After a set ____ of time, if the number of resulting ‘Likes’ and ‘Shares’ is too low, they’ll delete the content.

Sometimes within the first ten ____

Their aim of posting is to earn recognition for what they’re ____ as a way to self-enhance.

If the ____ is insufficient, they’d rather delete the content than suffer perceived judgement from others against their failed efforts to self-enhance.

Not getting a reaction ____ a negative effect on their self-esteem.

The ____ pessimists often sound smart is that they can avoid being ‘wrong’ by moving the goalposts.

When a doomer predicts that the world will end in five years, and it doesn’t ____ they just shift the date.

The American biologist Paul R. Ehrlich ____ author of the 1968 book The Population Bomb ― has been doing this for decades.

In 1970 he said that ‘sometime in the ____ 15 years, the end will come.

And by “the end” I mean an utter breakdown of the capacity ____ the planet to support humanity.’ Of course, that was terribly wrong.

He had another go: he said that ‘England ____ not exist in the year 2000.’ Wrong again.

Ehrlich will keep pushing ____ deadline back.

A pessimistic stance is ____ safe one.

We all understand differently ― ____ much is obvious.

The reason ____ understand differently is that our memories are different.

Our experiences simply are not yours. In order to understand anything, we must find the closest item in memory ____ which it relates.

Schank and Abelson claimed that understanding required one to find the correct knowledge structure, and to use that structure to create expectations for what events were likely to take place, so that new events could be understood in terms of ____ was normal.

Thus, when a story about a cocktail party was being told, an understander brought out his cocktail party script which told him ____ what ordinarily happens at cocktail parties, and he used that script to guide his understanding of the story he was about to hear.

Of all the colours of the rainbow the one that makes the greatest impact on the eye ____ red.

There is something instantly arresting about the colour ____ fire and danger.

It ischarged with alarm ____ urgency.

We have red fire engines, red warning lights and the Red ____

If we want something to ____ seen from a distance, such as a post box or (formerly) a telephone kiosk, we paint it red.

Perhaps it is because red is so obvious that few wild animals are truly red: even the so-called Red Squirrel and the Red Deer are really shades of reddish-brown that conceal rather than ____

Relatively few ____ are red either.

In Britain, and indeed, ____ all mainland Europe, only one species has a pattern of full-on bright red, like a splash of blood: the Red Admiral.