This could be an interesting research topic: Ask people how often then imagine having a fight with someone. Ask people how often then have a fight. Ask people how angry they feel. Then give them some questionnaire with is supposed to discover supressed anger. Make statistics. Post on LW. Gain 25 karma points. :D
EDIT: Actually, a rational course of action is to outsource all the work on some psychology student, and then just check their statistics, post on LW, and collect karma.
The other day, someone did something I didn't expect. It was something many people have done before; something that I thought of as very normal, but that I in no way understood and had not predicted.
As I said, this had happened many time before, so I wrote it off as "me not understanding people" or "people are weird" for a second, like I usually do, before realizing that "bad at" really means "lacking basic knowledge", which I had never realized before.
And then I thought "I should ask someone who is different from me why people do that, and eventually someone will have an answer."
But many people will have many more questions like this. So, what have you observed people doing time and time again, but never understood? Or something that you only understood after a long time or asking someone about it?
And can Less Wrong tell us, not necessarily why (I for one can make up evolutionary psychology fairy tales all day if I want) but what conscious thought process occurs behind these events?