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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Happiness Lab - Lizzi's Finding That Phones Are Causing Us to Lose Social Connections

Lizzi's finding that a lot of what's being lost is social. When people are sitting with a stranger in a room for ten minutes, in the absence of phones, they smile quite a bit at that other person. And you see about y per cent less smiling between strangers. Thirty per cent less smiling, thirty per cent. What is the scale of all this phone use doing to basic social connection in our society? Lizzi asks....

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