The Science of Friendship with Lydia Denworth
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English - March 01, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 152 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our conversation with Lydia Denworth touched on new findings from neuroscience that show us the impact that relationships have on us, even down to the genetic level. We touched on the different traits of positive, nourishing friendships, as well as the ambivalence that characterizes some of the others. Lydia walked us through the different ways we interact with friends and friendships throughout the various periods of our lives, and shared some thoughts on how we might better leverage the benefits of life’s fundamental bond in young people, through education. It was a rich conversation, filled with gems of thought for parents, professionals, or just any person looking to answer the call to level up to something better.
Shipley alumna Lydia Denworth ’84 is a best-selling popular science writer. She has written on a broad range of scientific topics for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Psychology Today, and has served as a contributing editor to Scientific American. Her third and most recent book is the New York Times bestseller, Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond.
Show Notes - Lydia Denworth
Website: www.lydiadenworth.com
Instagram: @lydiadenworth
Twitter: @LydiaDenworth
Brain Waves Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-waves
Other books by Lydia: Toxic Truth, I Can Hear You Whisper, Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond.
Contributed Essays: Torn by Samantha Parent Walravens
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4:59 Why friendship?
13:37 Defining friendship (stable, positive, cooperative/reciprocal)
19:04 Lunstad Meta analysis
19:27 Research on loneliness
20:28 Late 70’ & 80’s Framingham Heart Study
21:27 Explaining Lunstad Meta analysis
25:20 Loneliness as a biological warning system
25:33 Loneliness & Hunger - MIT Preliminary Report
32:02 - E. O Wilson, backlash about sociobiology
36:00 Burt Uchino & Julian Holt Lunstad on ambivalent relationships
47:20 WEIRD acronym
49:38 Daniel Hruschka (Friendship: Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship)
51:30 The Passenger Dilemma
55:00 School/Education can be done better
56:03 Importance of Friendships (adolescents)
1:01:40 Zoom learning impact
1:03:30 Scott Barry Kauffman Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization