By Glenn McMahan
Brazil’s leading weekly news magazine, Veja, reported this week that the Internet’s social networking sites can reduce “social isolation” by increasing the number of relational connections, but they do not reduce “emotional isolation.”
The distinction between social and emotional isolation was first identified by Robert Weiss, an American sociologist, in the 1970s. Emotional isolation, according to Wiess, [...]
July 9, 2009
Roseto, PA: Healthy Relationships and Physical Health
By Glenn McMahan
I recently drove 350 miles to São Paulo, home to about 20 million people, from my city in the next state south. After attending a couple of meetings, I made the long trip back home, driving through the vast and fertile farmland of Brazil’s agricultural heartland.
I had my PDA with me and it was loaded [...]
July 3, 2009
Harvard Research: Good Relationships Key to Happiness
Harvard University researchers have upheld a 72-year-long study of the same 268 men for the purpose of discovering what makes people happy through the course of life. What they have found is that people thrive most when relationships are healthy and whole, when life is about “more than me.”
A blog post is no place to fully discuss [...]
