by Kare Anderson | Mar 6, 2010 | behavior, Book, Caring, Choice, Friendship
Recently two friends broke trust with me. One offered to do something that was vital to me, didn’t and didn’t tell me. Another shared private information about me with a stranger who then told several people who work with me. I don’t know which...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 31, 2009 | behavior, Book, Connecting, Friendship
Just as Daniel Gilbert discovered in Stumbling on Happiness that we aren’t adept at knowing how happy we will be in the future, Gal Zauberman and John G. Lynch found that we get it wrong about how much free time we’ll have. They dryly dub this effect, “Resource...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 14, 2009 | behavior, Book, Caring, Friendship, Likeability, love
Something in yesterday’s “Modern Love“ column struck me as ringing true, not only for enduring marriages but for flourishing friendships, “Being single is all about the future, about the person you’re going to meet at Starbucks or after answering the next scientific...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 3, 2009 | Choice, Freedom, Friendship
In a world that increasingly favors thinkers (vs. laborers) huge changes are happening, including these four, observes Arnold King: 1. The nature of marriage has changed: “Men & women look for complementarity in consumption rather than in production.”2....
by Kare Anderson | Oct 31, 2009 | behavior, collaboration, Conflict, Friendship, Learning
When you first glimpse someone (or something) new your brain reacts instantly, but you knew that. What’s destructive is that when you instinctively feel danger – or simply irritation – you respond quicker, longer and more intensely than if you feel safe or...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 17, 2009 | Friendship
… then as we stay in touch on meaningless things, we can eventually work effectively together,” John T. Cacioppo says, observing what is happening with the daily tidbits of news we get about each other via Facebook and Twitter. Ironically, reading online...
