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That’s one of the big topics that social neuroscience gets into-that’s really how I came to it. It made me think about the ways that people in our lives affect us, even our biology, the way they make your pulse pound and your adrenaline spike.īut then I also thought about here I am losing my parents and my kids are growing up and out: I better make sure I’ve got my friends. So I was very buffeted day in day out by other people’s emotions and ups and downs. I was right at that moment sort of wedged in between a parent with Alzheimer’s disease and teenagers. I sat there at this meeting listening to them talking about all these elements of social behavior and what it does in the brain. I went to a meeting about social neuroscience, which is a sort of newer field within neuroscience, that is about mapping connections in and outside of the brain, this kind of web of connections that we have with other people.

What neuroscience is mainly interested in these days is mapping connections in the brain and inside the brain. As a science writer I mostly cover the brain.

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Our implicit in-group out-group bias and the importance of empathy.

The intersection of genetics and our environment, including our social environment.

The physical benefits of friendship and the evolutionary biology reason behind them.

The impact social media has had on friendship.

The scientific definitions of friendship and how long it takes to develop true friendship.

The evolutionary advantage of living in groups and being able to create bonds.

Her interesting and personal journey into becoming a science writer.

Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and many other publications. She is a contributing editor for Scientific American and writes the Brain Waves blog for Psychology Today. Lydia Denworth is a science journalist and author of Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond.