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In her surprising, entertaining, and persuasive new book, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker shows how face-to-face contact is crucial for learning, happiness, resilience, and longevity.
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. Not just any social networks will do: we need the real, in-the-flesh encounters that tie human families, groups of friends, and communities together.
Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience 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 many of our assumptions. Most of us have left the literal village behind and dont 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 thriveeven to survive. Creating our own village effect makes us happier. It can also save our lives.
Advance praise for The Village Effect
A terrific book . . . Pinker makes a hardheaded case for a softhearted virtue. Read this book. Then talk about itin person!with a friend.Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human
What do Sardinian men, Trader Joes employees, and nuns have in common? Real social networksthough not the kind youll find on Facebook or Twitter. Susan Pinkers delightful book shows why face-to-face interaction at home, school, and work makes us healthier, smarter, and more successful.Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Provocative and engaging . . . Pinker is a great storyteller and a thoughtful scholar. This is an important book, one that will shape how we think about the increasingly virtual world we all live in.Paul Bloom, author of Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
A fascinating, nuanced study of that most fundamental need: the need for human connection.Maria Konnikova, New York Times bestselling author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
The Village Effect is a fascinating explanation of why we need regular contact with people, not just screensand why time spent with your neighbors will enrich and extend your life in ways you never imagined.John Tierney, New York Times bestselling co-author of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
With a raft of surprising data, this compulsively readable, lively and meticulously researched book shows that direct and frequent human contact is at least as important to our survival as clean air or good nutrition.Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today

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Do you like email, text messages, and social media? So do I. But as Susan Pinker shows in this terrific book, electronic communication can never replace our deeply rooted, fundamentally human need for face-to-face interaction. Drawing on cutting edge research in social neuroscience, and supplementing the science with case studies and sharp observations, Pinker makes a hardheaded case for a soft-hearted virtue. Read this book. Then talk about itin person!with a friend.

Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human

Intimate, face-to-face contact with partners, family, and friends is an ancient and deep human need. How do group-living primates like us make the transition to an online world in the evolutionary blink of an eye? Can they? Pinker shows how this is happening. Andeven more importantshe shows us how this should happen, with a valuable prescription based on the best science. Pinker writes with authority and verve, and she offers an integrated treatment of online and offline interactions. She sketches our modern digital interactions on the ancient parchment of our minds.

Nicholas Christakis, professor of social and natural science, Yale University, and co-author of Connected

We have a biological drive for social interaction. We long to belong. Susan Pinkers new book reveals the type of social contact that makes us tick. Written with verve, warmth, and style, it presents new science about what mattersraising healthy kids, leading a long and engaged life, being successful at work and play. This is a gem of a book!

Andrew N. Meltzoff, co-director, University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, and co-author of The Scientist in the Crib

Susan Pinkers The Village Effect is a bold, intelligent foray into what social isolation does to each of us in an age of technology. She offers keen insights into how social engagement enhances romance, parenting, career, family and friendship. Most impressively, Susan Pinker explores how gender and social forces play into our daily lives.

Susan Shapiro Barash, author of The Nine Phases of Marriage and Toxic Friends

In this provocative and engaging new book, Susan Pinker shows how intimate social contact is a fundamental human need and argues that Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of social media fail to meet this need, diminishing the lives of children, teenagers, and everybody else. Pinker is a great storyteller and a thoughtful scholar, and she expertly blends together personal stories and scientific research about marriage, cancer, obesity, happiness, longevity, religion, menstrual synchrony, solitary confinement, and much more. This is an important book, one that will shape how we think about the increasingly virtual world we all live in.

Paul Bloom, Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale University, and author of Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil

Why would a weekly meal with friends add as many years to your life as quitting smoking? Why is face-to-face so much better than Facebook? Susan Pinker has the answers. With her usual flair and expertise, she combines the latest neuroscience and social psychology with stories of villagers in Sardinia, nuns in America, and the dating scene in Montreal. Its a fascinating explanation of why we need regular contact with people, not just screensand why time spent with your neighbors will enrich and extend your life in ways you never imagined.

John Tierney, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Willpower

In a time when we rely increasingly on virtual forms of communication and networking, The Village Effect is an important reminder of the value we derive from our real, personal networksand what we lose when we replace them with the social networks of the online age. Susan Pinker has written a fascinating, nuanced study of that most fundamental need: the need for human connection. No matter how far technology evolves, she reminds us, some things can never be replaced.

Maria Konnikova, New York Times bestselling author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Hell is other people, declared the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Not so, says Pinker. With a raft of surprising data, this compulsively readable book reminds us that loneliness and isolation are our blightsother people are the source of our happiness. This lively and meticulously researched book shows that direct and frequent human contact are at least as important to our survival as clean air or good nutrition.

Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today

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Copyright 2014 by Susan Pinker

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Published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

S PIEGEL & G RAU and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

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Pinker, Susan
The village effect : how face-to-face contact can make us healthier, happier, and smarter / Susan Pinker
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4000-6957-6
eBook ISBN 978-0-679-60454-9
1. Social interaction. 2. Interpersonal relations. 3. Interpersonal communication. 4. Eye contact. I. Title.
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You cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibers connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibers, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.

The Reverend Henry Melvill, 1856

Contents

Introduction
People Who Need People

1. Swimming Through the School of Hard Knocks
How Social Bonds Can Rejig the Outcome of Chronic Disease

2. It Takes a Village to Raise a Centenarian
Longevity as a Team Sport

3. A Thousand Invisible Threads
Face-to-Face Contact and Social Contagion

4. Whos Coming to Dinner
Food, Drink, and Social Bonds

5. Baby Chemistry
How Social Contact Transforms Infants Brains

6. Digital Natives
Electronic Devices and Childrens Language Development, School Progress, and Happiness

7. Teens and Screens
How Digital Technology Has Transformed Teens Lives

8. Going to the Chapel
Face-to-Face Social Networks, Love, and Marriage

9. When Money Really Talks
Social Networks, Business, and Crime

10. Conclusion
Creating the Village Effect

Introduction
People Who Need People

One June day in 2009, a rock musician named John McColgan was told that he needed a new kidney and he needed it fast. Every day in the United States, twelve people died waiting for a kidney, and when Johns name was added to the kidney transplant waiting list, the list was 86,218 names long. At the time he was living in Canada, though, where the list included only 2,941 people. Still, he took the news badly.

John is a drummer, an energetic and sinewy man with a smoothly shaved head. Though he had been diagnosed with progressive kidney disease when he was in his mid-twenties, hed had few symptoms and until that moment hadnt spent much time worrying about his health. At forty-eight he was often on the basketball court with men a decade younger, and he liked nothing better than to shoot a few hoops with his seventeen-year-old son. John skateboarded around town in summer, snowboarded in winter, and did pushups and crunches every day on the floor of his living room, not to mention all the drumming, a workout in itself. Before turning thirty he had played with Linda Ronstadt and Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and a short time later he backed up Big Mama Thornton and opened for superstars such as James Brown and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Still, when money was scarce, he wasnt above digging irrigation ditches and working renovation jobs. Johns gas tank was often empty, his rent overdue. But his exuberance onstage and his lightheartedness offstage gave him the eternal charm of a schoolboy; he always got by with a little help from his friends.

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