Human beings are hardwired to connect with other people face-to-face from birth to death. Close bonds of friendship and love as well as looser in-person bonds form a "personal village" around each person that exerts unique positive effects by healing, helping children learn, extending lives, and increasing happiness. The book explores how face-to-face contact impacts people from childhood through adulthood based on neuroscience and stories, showing how modern lives lack the close bonds and face time that previous generations found in villages, but which are still needed to thrive and be happy, and may even help people survive.

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From birth to death, human beings are hardwired to connect to other human beings. Face­to­face contact matters:
tight bonds of friendship and love heal us, help children learn, extend our lives, and make us happy. Looser
in­person bonds matter too, combining with our close relationships to form a personal 'village' around us, one that
exerts unique effects.
Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, Susan Pinker
explores the impact of face­to­face contact from cradle to grave, from city to Sardinian mountain village, from
classroom to workplace, from love to marriage to divorce. 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 friends and families in order to thrive­even to survive. Creating our own
'village effect' can make us happier. It can also save our lives.

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