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The Village Effect - How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter (MP3 format, CD, Unabridged edition)
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The Village Effect - How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter (MP3 format, CD, Unabridged edition)
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Discovery Miles 4 260
You Save R156 (27%)
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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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