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The Village Effect: Why Face-to-Face Contact Matters
Susan Pinker
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Description for The Village Effect: Why Face-to-Face Contact Matters
Paperback. Blending cutting-edge science with compelling personal narrative, bestselling author Susan Pinker examines the transformative power of human relationships and radically challenges our long-held assumptions about lifespan and happiness. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JMH; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 402.
Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, award-winning author and psychologist 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 our assumptions.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848878594
SKU
V9781848878594
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About Susan Pinker
Susan Pinker is a developmental psychologist, journalist, and author whose first book, The Sexual Paradox, won the American Psychological Association's most prestigious literary prize, the William James Book Award, and was published in seventeen countries. A national columnist, lecturer, and broadcaster whose work has garnered many writing awards, Pinker's ideas have been featured in The Times, the Guardian, The Economist, ... Read more
Reviews for The Village Effect: Why Face-to-Face Contact Matters
A terrific book . . . Pinker makes a hardheaded case for a softhearted virtue. Read this book. Then talk about it - in person! - with a friend.
Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human
Susan Pinker's delightful book shows why face-to-face interaction at home, school, and work makes us healthier, smarter, ... Read more
Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human
Susan Pinker's delightful book shows why face-to-face interaction at home, school, and work makes us healthier, smarter, ... Read more