At some point, most of us have been dismayed by invasive questions: Why are you still working shouldn't you be retired by now? Why aren't you in a relationship? How come you're still unemployed? Many of us hear the same ones so often that we can sense the ramp-up.
These questions are often a tactic for people to share their own points of view, said Scott Shigeoka, a fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. When you're genuinely curious about someone, Shigeoka explained, the message is 'I want to understand you.' But when people ask questions with an agenda, they're using something that he calls predatory curiosity.
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