The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier
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The village effect: how face-to-face contact can make us healthier and happier

SUSAN PINKER


The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier

SUSAN PINKER

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In her surprising, entertaining and persuasive new book, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker shows how face-to-face contact is crucial for learning, happiness, resilience and longevity. From birth to death, human beings are hard-wired to connect to other human beings. Face-to-face contact matters: tight bonds of friendship and love heal us, help children learn, extend our lives and make us happy. Looser in-person bonds matter, too, combining with our close relationships to form a personal "village" around us, one that exerts unique effects. And not just any social networks will do: we need the real, face-to-face, in-the-flesh encounters that tie human families, groups of friends and communities together. Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, Susan Pinker explores the impact of face-to-face contact from cradle to grave, from city to Sardinian mountain village, from classroom to workplace, from love to marriage to divorce. Her results are enlightening and enlivening, and they challenge our assumptions. Most of us have left the literal village behind, and don't want to give up our new technologies to go back there. But, as Pinker writes so compellingly, 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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Title
The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier
Author
Editor
Price
$23.00
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Format Poche
No
Language
Anglais/English
Pages number
432
Publication Date
2015-08-25
Dimensions
20 x 13 cm
ISBN
9780307359544
Internal Code
1970110
Product Number
10865368

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