How do friendships change as we get older? Should you join a bowling league? And also: how does a cook become a chef?
RESOURCES:
- “Social Support From Weak Ties: Insight From the Literature on Minimal Social Interactions,” by Joshua Moreton, Caitlin S. Kelly, and Gillian Sandstrom (Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2023).
- Join or Die, documentary (2023).
- “I Tried Bumble BFF for 30 Days — Here’s What Happened,” by Beth Gillette (The Everygirl, 2022).
- Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make — and Keep — Friends, by Marisa Franco (2022).
- “Grocery Store Opens ‘Chat Registers’ for Lonely Customers,” by Gabriel Geiger (Vice, 2021).
- “The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss,” by Daniel A. Cox (Survey Center on American Life, 2021).
- “Number of Close Friends Had by Adults in the United States in 1990 and 2021,” by Michele Majidi (Survey Center on American Life, 2021).
- “You’re Not Uncool. Making Friends as an Adult Is Just Hard,” by Peter O’Dowd and Kalyani Saxena (WBUR, 2021).
- "My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?" by Gabrielle Hamilton (The New York Times Magazine, 2020).
- “Why You Miss Those Casual Friends So Much,” by Gillian Sandstrom and Ashley Whillans (Harvard Business Review, 2020).
- “The Bros Who Met Their BFFs on Bumble,” by Rebecca Nelson (GQ, 2016).
- “Sex Differences in Social Focus Across the Life Cycle in Humans,” by Kunal Bhattacharya, Asim Ghosh, Daniel Monsivais, Robin I. M. Dunbar, and Kimmo Kaski (Royal Society Open Science, 2016).
- Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (2011).
- “Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review,” by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith, and J. Bradley Layton (PLoS Medicine, 2010).
- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert Putnam (2000).
- The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, by Ray Oldenburg (1999).
- Character Lab.
EXTRAS:
- “How Much Are the Right Friends Worth?” by People I (Mostly) Admire (2022).
- “Is It Weird for Adults to Have Imaginary Friends?” by No Stup
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- Show
- Channel
- FrequencyUpdated Weekly
- PublishedNovember 26, 2023 at 5:05 a.m. UTC
- Length53 min
- Episode149
- RatingClean