The Village Effect
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The Village Effect: How Face-to-face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier
By Susan PinkerSTREss, CANCER, AND ELIZABETH EDWARDs This raises what I'll call the Elizabeth Edwards question—one of the touchier aspects of the social-support-affects-cancer-survival idea. While I was researching this chapter, Elizabeth Edwards, ...
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The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
By Susan Pinker12 (2010); Jonah Lehrer, “Groupthink:The Brainstorming Myth,” NewYorker, January 30, 2012; GregLindsay, “Engineering Serendipity,” NewYork Times,April 7, 2013; Michelle Young, “Googleplex, Mountain View: Designing Interior Spacesatan ...
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The Village Effect: How Face-to-face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
But, Pinker writes, we need close social bonds and uninterrupted face-time with our friends and families in order to thrive -- even to survive. Creating our own "village effect" can make us happier. It can also save our lives.
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The Village Effect: Why Face to Face Contact Is a Human Imperative
By Susan Pinker"From birth to death, human beings are hard-wired to connect to other human beings.
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The Village Effect: How Face-to-face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
By Susan Pinker"--The Boston Globe "A hopeful, warm guide to living more intimately in an disconnected era."--Publishers Weekly "A terrific book . . . Pinker makes a hardheaded case for a softhearted virtue. Read this book.
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The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters
By Susan PinkerBlending cutting edge science with compelling personal narrative, bestselling author Susan Pinker examines the transformative power of human relationships and radically challenges our long-held assumptions about lifespan and happiness.