Survival Of The Friendliest
What is the Most Misunderstood thing about friendship?
Very few people are aware of the link between social relationships and health. Studies have found that Friendship can actually change your cardiovascular system, your immune system, your sleep cycle, and your mental health. You may be wondering how something that is outside could affect your inner health. We thought of loneliness as this difficult emotion, but just an emotion. And we think of friends as this lovely thing, but it is actually a matter of life and death. And there's this evolutionary drive to connect. People think all the time about competition and survival of the fittest, but really it's survival of the friendliest.
Is there Friendship in other species?
Evolutionary Biologists discovered the relationship between the species that was distinctive from the usual. It has been found that dolphins, and elephants, and horses, and zebras, and hyenas and all kinds of species have something that looks like friendship. Even the Fishes have found to differentiate between familiar fishes and different fishes; which looks like what goes in their brain is cognitively different toward similar species.
Does gender play a role in friendships?
The standard line is that women do friendship face-to-face and men do it side by side, meaning women spend their time talking and men do things together. And there's truth to that, but when you ask men how much they value friendship, their answers would be the same, for the most part. The similarities are greater than the differences between men and women.
Is social media helping or hurting our friendships?
Friendship is alive and well in the age of social media. In terms of relationships and connectivity and networks, it's positive. The place where it is hard on relationships is when you're face-to-face and instead of looking at your friends, you're looking at your phone. Looking at a person face-to-face, in person, your brain responds differently even if you look at that same person on a screen, and certainly if you're online and not looking at their face. There's all this talk about the word "friend" being devalued by social media, really that's not true. We know who our really good friends are, whether we're online with them or offline. Talking or chatting doesn't make a difference when it comes to the feeling of comfort and warmth that friendship could provide. And especially in Pandemic social platforms have given the comfort of connectedness.
How Friendship Improve Health?
You must have come across to the infamous saying that man is a social animal. Historically during the evolution from homohabillis to homosapiens humans survived because they lived in a closed community which helped them to hunt, survive and breed. Likewise, our 'primitive mind' learned to live and thrive socially. Sometimes days feel like a void of darkness, you feel sluggish and depressed, it's exactly where friends could be a real help if you allow them to. When you feel depressed or find yourself emotionally weak your cortisol level drops which manages the metabolism, immunity, inflammation response and stress. In Contrary, when you hang out with friends body releases dopamine which is simply called happy hormones which makes you feel good. In this pandemic, when days have become monotonous and there's not much to do, call your friends if you had not and remind them the time of your life.
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