Susan Pinker is a developmental psychologist, journalist, and award-winning author. Her first book, The Sexual Paradox, won the American Psychological Association's most prestigious literary prize, the William James Book Award, and has been published in seventeen countries. A Globe and Mail columnist from 2002 to 2012, Susan has also been published or featured in the New York Times, the Times of London, the Guardian, the Economist, the Atlantic, Financial Times, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications. Married with three children, she lives in Montreal. Donna Postel, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, is absolutely passionate about audiobooks and has narrated close to fifty titles across multiple genres, from memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense. She uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring books to life. When she's not in the studio, she can be found down at the barn cleaning up after and occasionally riding horses.
"The Village Effect is a fascinating explanation of why we need
regular contact with people, not just screens--and why time spent
with your neighbors will enrich and extend your life in ways you
never imagined."-- "John Tierney, New York Times bestselling
co-author of Willpower"
"A fascinating, nuanced study of that most fundamental need: the
need for human connection."-- "Maria Konnikova, author of
Mastermind: How to Think like Sherlock Holmes"
"A terrific book...Susan Pinker makes a hardheaded case for a
softhearted virtue. Read this book. Then talk about it--in
person!--with a friend."-- "Daniel H. Pink, New York Times
bestselling author of Drive"
"Donna Postel gives a solid narration of this timely exhortation to
strengthen our personal relationships in an age in which many of us
find ourselves hiding behind the screens of our various forms of
technology...Postel's pacing is easy to follow, and her voicing is
clear, albeit sometimes lacking a degree of variation that would
liven things up a bit. Ultimately, her performance is good,
allowing the material speak for itself and underscoring the need
for many of us to take a step back from our devices in order to
cultivate relationships the old-fashioned way."-- "AudioFile"
"Drawing on scores of psychological and sociological studies,
[Pinker] suggests that living as our ancestors did, steeped in
face-to-face contact and physical proximity, is the key to health,
while loneliness is 'less an exalted existential state than a
public health risk.' That her point is fairly obvious doesn't
diminish its importance; smart readers will take the book out to a
park to enjoy in the company of others."-- "Boston Globe"
"How many of us recognize that the simple face-to-face contact that
our ancestors took for granted can enhance our lives? Susan
Pinker's The Village Effect uses recent findings from social
psychology and other research to demonstrate that even hanging out
with your best buds or chatting with your Significant Other has
hidden benefits that can lengthen your life and lessen your
stress."-- "Barnes&Noble.com, editorial review"
"It takes a village to raise--well, just about everybody...[Pinker]
examines why social people live longer, on the whole, than loners,
why playing cards around a table is better than playing cards
online, and why it is that 'social isolation kills' and being alone
works contrary to 'the complex genetic code we've developed as a
social species.' There are, she allows, different styles of being
social and of being lonely, but the thrust of the book squares with
all that's intuitive: It's good to play (birds and bees both do
it), it's good to play with others of our kind, and it's better to
play than to watch TV, which makes us 'less happy and competent
than [our] peers.'"-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"Pinker explores the powerful effects of face-to-face contact in
our increasingly computer-mediated world...Serves as a hopeful,
warm guide to living more intimately in an disconnected era."--
"Publishers Weekly"
"Provocative and engaging...Pinker is a great storyteller and a
thoughtful scholar. This is an important book, one that will shape
how we think about the increasingly virtual world we all live
in."-- "Paul Bloom, author of Just Babies: The Origins of Good and
Evil"
"The benefits of the digital age have been oversold. Or to put it
another way: there is plenty of life left in face-to-face, human
interaction. That is the message emerging from this entertaining
book by Susan Pinker, a Canadian psychologist. Citing a wealth of
research and reinforced with her own arguments, Pinker suggests we
should make an effort--at work and in our private lives--to promote
greater levels of personal intimacy."-- "Financial Times
(London)"
"What do Sardinian men, Trader Joe's employees, and nuns have in
common? Real social networks--though not the kind you'll find on
Facebook or Twitter. Susan Pinker's delightful book shows why
face-to-face interaction at home, school, and work makes us
healthier, smarter, and more successful."-- "Charles Duhigg, New
York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit"
"With a raft of surprising data, this compulsively readable, lively
and meticulously researched book shows that direct and frequent
human contact is at least as important to our survival as clean air
or good nutrition."-- "Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Freedom
Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today"
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