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Profs & Pints DC: The Science of Making Friends
Profs & Pints DC: The Science of Making Friends

Wed, Mar 08

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Profs & Pints DC: The Science of Making Friends

Learn what science says about making friends in this interactive talk by Dr. Marisa Franco, a psychologist who has extensively researched human connection and systemic loneliness and whose book Platonic has been extensively lauded as a source of great practical advice.

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Mar 08, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA

About the event

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Science of Making Friends,” with Marisa G. Franco, assistant clinical professor of psychology at the University of Maryland’s Honors College and author of the New York Times best-seller Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep—Friends.

Friends matter. They’ve been shown to improve mental and physical health, with one study of very happy people finding that their most defining characteristic was being socially connected.

Yet friendship networks have been shrinking over the last few decades as people have coped with distraction, burnout, and chaos. It doesn’t help that we live in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense of other relationships.

How do we make and keep friends? What’s the secret to finding “your people” in an ever-more-fragmented world?

Learn what science says about making friends in this interactive talk by Dr. Marisa Franco, a psychologist who has…

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