How Your Brain Interprets Friendships

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Two thousand years ago, aristotle defined friendship as another's self. More than 65 studies have now shown that that is how your brain interprets friendship. T when you put women in an mri machine, and you say the name of their best friend, the areas of their brain for self processing actually light up. It takes our brain longer to disentangle who our friends are than who we our friends actually are another self.

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Best-selling author and popular blogger Eric Barker joins Joe to discuss his latest book, Plays Well With Others, sharing what decades of research tells us about relationships and how we can build better ones in our own lives. In this episode, Joe and Eric cover first impressions, romantic relationships, friendships, and the importance of being a member of a community.

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