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What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
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Conversation skills essentials
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How to Befriend Crows
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Researchers find that a simple “talking to strangers” intervention is effective
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Mistaken beliefs about how much to talk in conversations
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A friendly introduction to the Friendship Paradox (2021)
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How friendships change in adulthood
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An opinionated guide to making friends
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Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities
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Making friends on the internet
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The Agony of Eros: Dating
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How relationship satisfaction changes across your lifetime
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Writing is networking for introverts
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Beyond small talk: Study finds people enjoy deep conversations with strangers
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The Problem of Marital Loneliness
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The vital art of talking to strangers
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Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (2019) [pdf]
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My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers
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Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study
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Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
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The high price of mistrust
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Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend?
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Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (2017)
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How Happy Couples Argue: Study (2019)
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Taking Someone Aside (2018)
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The outsize influence of middle-school friends
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Are we happier when we spend more time with others?
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Benefits of talking to strangers
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How do we know when we’ve fallen in love? (2016)
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Most Initial Conversations Go Better Than People Think
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How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name?
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People Like You More Than You Know
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Why are conversations limited to about four people?
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How ‘Authentic Relating’ Made Vulnerability a Movement (2017)
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Friendship’s Dark Side
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Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore
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Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help
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How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)
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How to make a friend fast
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Why Wallflowers Don't Make Friends
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How Friendships Change Over Time (2015)
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What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage
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Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee
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Why are your friends more popular than you? (2013)
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Good Storytellers Are Happier in Life and in Love
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The Science of Making Friends
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Living with Schizophrenia: Coffee and Friends
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Our Use of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests
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Friendship Paradox
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Faux Friendship
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The Four Levels of Social Entrapment
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Hello, stranger – Talking to random people
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Public Facing Dog
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Other People’s Problems
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Friendship and Social Fitness
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