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    The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
    The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
    The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
    Audiobook11 hours

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

    Written by Susan Pinker

    Narrated by Donna Postel

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    About this audiobook

    From birth to death, human beings are hardwired 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.
    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. 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 8, 2014
    ISBN9781494572174
    The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter

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    • 4/5
      Face-to-face interactions matter. That is the conclusion Susan Pinker draws from her extensive review of the research conducted in the fields of social cognition and neuroscience. Live interactions with people promote health, happiness, and learning. The same effects are not obtained through electronic contact with others. The many examples and research results included in the book and Pinker’s engaging writing style make for fascinating reading. Those interested in business, health care, education, and parenting will find in the book much that is interesting and useful. The extensive research Pinker cites supports the argument that screen time is not a substitute for face time.

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    • 5/5
      This was one of the best books I ever read, much needed today in a place where we are both more connected and disconnected than ever. I thought when reading this book I would learn the science of why we need people. However, I got that and a lot more! Written in a very entertaining and caring way, Pinker delves into the social issues of our time. From education to institutions such as marriage and to political uprisings, she shows that social interaction is a vital human need and catalyst of change. In addition, you will learn a lot of mindblowing, counterintuitive facts along the way. For instance, you will hear the greatest factor in a good education that can make students gain on average $250,000 more in their lifetime. You will also hear what practice can allow you to get 140% more money in tips. None of the material in this book is dry or boring or full of statistics. Susan Pinker has a knack for explaining many concepts in the form of real life anecdotes. Everything is extremely well organized and supported. If you want a read that will jumpstart your relationships with others or just want to make the world a better place, real this now!!!