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Discover the unforeseen ways friends influence our personalities, options, emotions, and even physical health in this fun and powerful examination of a friendly relationship, predicated on the latest clinical research and ever-relatable anecdotes. How come dinner with friends often more laughter-filled and less fraught than a meal with family? Although some say it's because we choose our friends, it's also because we expect less of these than we do of family. While we're active scrutinizing our romantic relationships and family dramas, our friends are silently but highly influencing from the articles we read to our weight fluctuations, from our gender lives to our overall delight levels. Evolutionary psychologists have long theorized that a friendly relationship has roots in our early reliance on others for success. These days, we still cherish friends but tend to undervalue their role in our lives. However, the skills one needs to make good friends are among the skills that lead to success in life, and clinical research has recently exploded with insights about the significant and enduring ways friendships influence us. With people marrying later - and often never - and more families having just one child, these relationships may be attaining in importance. The evidence even shows that sometimes friends have a larger submit our development and well-being than do our romantic partners and family. Friendfluence studies online-only pals, good friend breakups, the energy of internet sites, envy, peer pressure, the dark aspect of amicable ties, and a great many other varieties of a friendly relationship. Told with ambiance, clinical rigor, and a dash of laughter, Friendfluence not only illuminates and interprets the research but attracts on clinical psychology and viewpoint to help listeners assess and get around their own important friendships.
