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We are social animals. Close social ties are one of the biggest predictors of happiness. I'll just leave this here[1]: > The upshot of 50 years of happiness r
by kareemm 10y ago
We are social animals. Close social ties are one of the biggest predictors of happiness.
I'll just leave this here[1]:
> The upshot of 50 years of happiness research is that the quantity and quality of a person's social connections—friendships, relationships with family members, closeness to neighbors, etc.—is so closely related to well-being and personal happiness the two can practically be equated.
1 - http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/raising_happiness/post/happiness_is_being_socially_connected http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/raising_happiness/post/happi...
- htns 10y ago>We are social animals More like murder-anyone-not-from-our-low-double-digits-headcount-community animals ;) The way the phrase is popularly used is an equivocation.
- hackuser 10y agoI'm pretty sure that's wrong. People need social relationships to survive; it's not optional. People literally go insane without social contact.
- htns 10y agoThat's ludicrous. There are countless hermits, castaways, and such who retained their sanity just fine. Even cabin fever is not insanity.
- colx 10y ago> Even cabin fever is not insanity. If anything, the fact that cabin fever is so prevalent should be an indication that maybe humans haven't evolved to live in very close proximity for most of the time.