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

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

Sometimes within the first ____ minutes!

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

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

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

The reason pessimists often sound smart is that they can avoid being ‘wrong’ by ____ 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. ____ ― author of the 1968 book The Population Bomb ― has been doing this for decades.

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

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

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

Ehrlich will keep ____ this deadline back.

A ____ stance is a safe one.

We all ____ differently ― this much is obvious.

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

Our experiences simply are not yours. In ____ to understand anything, we must find the closest item in memory to 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, ____ that new events could be understood in terms of what was normal.

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

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

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

It ischarged with alarm ____ urgency.

____ have red fire engines, red warning lights and the Red Cross.

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

Perhaps it is because red is so obvious that ____ 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 advertise.

Relatively few ____ are red either.

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