{"id":3354,"date":"2019-07-09T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2019-07-09T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T22:22:12","slug":"how-to-make-friends-according-to-science-the-atlantic-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/09\/how-to-make-friends-according-to-science-the-atlantic-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Friends, According to Science &#8211; The Atlantic &#8211; Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So what should you do if your social life is lacking? Here, too, the research is instructive. To begin with, don\u2019t dismiss the humble acquaintance. Even interacting with people with who<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">m one has weak social ties has a meaningful influence on well-being. [7] Beyond that, building deeper friendships may be largely a matter of putting in time. A recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a \u201creal\u201d friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend. [8]&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/how-to-make-friends-according-to-science\">How to Make Friends, According to Science &#8211; The Atlantic &#8211; Pocket<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So what should you do if your social life is lacking? Here, too, the research is instructive. To begin with, don\u2019t dismiss the humble acquaintance&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}