Tennis Friends
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John McEnroe talks about the difficulty of maintaining friendships.
Choosing Friends
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Elizabeth Gilbert talks about how she chooses her friends and the value of those special relationships.
The First Connection
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Dr. Lane Strathearn describes the enduring nature of the mother-child bond and how that sets the stage for a lifetime of social connections.
Career and friendship
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Actor John Leguizamo shares a personal story about how success altered his priorities and threatened his friendships.
Your Friends’ Friends Can Make You Happy
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Dr. Nicholas Christakis, who studies the mathematical, social, and genetic determinants of social network structure, explains how happiness flows one person to another.
Racing Hearts
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Dr. Art Aron, an expert on relationships, social cognition, and social neuroscience, recounts the findings of his famous “Capilano Bridge experiment”. This experiment demonstrated that a person’s feelings of attraction are more intense in situations of danger.
When Chevy Met Jayni
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Actor Chevy Chase and his wife Jayni share their story of how they met and fell in love.
The Rituals of Courtship
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Marc D. Hauser, author of the highly acclaimed book, Wild Minds, What Animals Really Think, talks about the rituals of human courtship.
The Roots of Love
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Dr. David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist who studies mating strategies, gender conflict, social status, and the function of emotions in cultures around the world. He talks about the universality of love and the differences between what women want and what men want.
Love’s Antechamber
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Elizabeth Gilbert describes infatuation as "love’s antechamber, a place where you wait to see if you will proceed onto love".