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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 hard-wired 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, t...

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Susan Pinker is a psychologist and a "Globe and Mail" columnist. Her writing has been recognized in awards from the Periodical Writers Association of Canada and the Canadian Medical Association, and she was a finalist for the John Alexander Media Award, the Aventis Pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism, and the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in Communications. She has taught in the Department of Educational and Counseling...

An examination of the transformative power of human relationships and radical challenge to our long-held assumptions about life-span and happiness.

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Trade paperback. An examination of the transformative power of human relationships, radically challenging our long-held assumptions about life-span and happiness, blending cutting-edge science with personal narrative, from bestselling author Susan Pinker.

At last, common sense... This highly readable book on a familiar theme succeeds where others do not, with its potent combination of scientific research, interviews and astute observation. It is a large contribution to an important debate.' Tony Little, Financial Times In The Sexual Paradox, psychologist Susan Pinker takes a timely look at the very science of sex difference.Comparing the lives of promising schoolgirls who later opt out of succe...

Libro escogido por el editor en The New York Times Recomendado por The Globe and Mail Escogido como uno de los mejores libros por Evening Standard Este libro revelador presenta un análisis provocativo sobre cómo y por qué las diferencias de género influyen en las elecciones profesionales y en la ambición personal. A través de las historias de hombres y de mujeres reales, de la ciencia y de ejemplos de la cultura popular, Susan Pinker ofrece un...

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