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Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness | Dr. Robert Waldinger
10% Happier with Dan Harris
The Effect of Friendships on Stress and Anxiety
You say in the book that friends diminish our perception of hardship, making us perceive adverse events as less stressful than we might otherwise see them. And there's actually a cool study that we didn't do, but where they put some people in an MRI scanner and looked at their brains as they were receiving electric shocks. People who had someone there to hold their hand experienced the shock as less painful and experienced less anxiety anticipating whether or not they were going to get a shock. It could even be a stranger holding your hand, but the effect was much more powerful if it was somebody you were close to.
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