This week’s TIME cover story — available to subscribers here — reveals that true friendship, marked by generosity, …
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How Being Socially Connected May Sap Your Empathy
Feeling socially connected is good for you, both physically and mentally, but in a paradox, it may also make you less empathetic to the plight of others.
Study: A Guy’s Bromances May Help Keep Sex With His Wife Alive
Masculinity is a delicate flower. Easily wilted, it needs constant care and nurturing, as any wife or girlfriend of a man well knows. And that may mean keeping a distance from a man’s friends.
Rebooting Valentine’s Day as Generosity Day
Single? In a bad relationship? Or so in love that the idea of celebrating only your own romance on Valentine’s Day seems too small to capture the abundance of unity and connection in the world?
Friends with (Genetic) Benefits?
A new study suggests that when it comes to certain genes, friends of a feather flock together—but with others, opposites attract.