People get advice all the time, but they rarely follow it even if they accept it as good advice.

Why does this happen?

Art Markman, Ph.D, a psychology professor at the University of Texas, explains the reason in a column at Psychology Today.

He cites a recent study in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which suggests that "advice givers and advice takers differ in how abstractly they think about situations."

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