Lydia Denworth

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Lydia Denworth is a science journalist and author. She is the contributing editor for Scientific American and writes for Psychology Today. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Time. Lydia sits down with the Armchair Expert to talk about the biology of friendship, the science of social bonding and the evidence that we are social animals. Dax asks for suggestions to aid social development for kids who struggle to make friendships and Lydia details how friendship impacts mortality and longevity. They also touch on Lydia's work in the Deaf community, quality vs. quantity in friendships and Lydia explains why Monica is Exhibit A in the necessity of friendship. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert.
0:04.7	I'm Monica Plathman and I'm joined by Dinrither.
0:08.0	Shh, hi there!
0:10.0	I think someone sent me something like, would you like a contact interview Dan rather and I was like oh my goodness yes I would love to introduce Dan rather as Dan rather
0:21.5	what about Monica Monsoon?
0:23.0	Do you think she exists in real life?
0:24.6	Let's scour the internet.
0:26.2	She has to exist in some backwater
0:28.3	and like rural Tennessee as a meteorologist.
0:31.3	Can't wait to meet her.
0:32.3	Well, today we have a really
0:33.6	really appropriate guest because look hopefully most of us are self-quarantined
0:38.5	if you're not and you have to work first of all thank you so much to the people that are working and risking their health,
0:46.0	working at grocery stores, delivering food, all the different services that we need.
0:50.0	Man, am I grateful for all you guys?
0:52.0	Me too.
0:53.0	The doctors, everyone in the medical community putting themselves at risk to help us.
0:58.0	Thank you all.
0:59.0	So appreciated and what I want to say about that Monica.
1:02.0	Yeah, and also it's part of our responsibility,
1:06.0	if you're not one of those people,
1:08.0	to help those people out by staying home.
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