WEDNESDAY: Relationships: Friendliness with strangers Being friendly with strangers is good for you (and I bet for them too!): Many of us assume, however, that our well-being depends on our closest ties, and not on the minor characters in our daily lives. To investigate the validity of this assumption, our student Gillian M. Sandstrom asked people to keep a running tally of their social interactions. She had them carry clickers — one red, one black — in their pockets all day. They clicked the red one whenever they interacted with someone close to them (a “strong tie”) and the black one whenever they interacted with someone they didn’t know so well (a “weak tie”). She found that introverts and extroverts alike felt happier on days when they had more social interactions. More surprisingly, interactions with weak ties correlated at least as highly with happiness as interactions with strong ties. Even the bit players in our lives may influence our well-being. nytimes/2014/04/26/opinion/sunday/hello-stranger.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_HSx_20140427&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=4
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 12:30:01 +0000
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