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Why we follow temporal social norms against our own needs

I book every restaurant reservation for 6:30pm because it seems like the right time for dinner even though I am never hungry until 8pm and then I eat food I do not want at a time that makes no sense.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Conforming to collective time patterns often overrides individual biological wisdom.

Ideas that help explain it
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