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males tend to form groups whereas females focus on more intense dyadic relationships, and this difference in social style can be observed even in children.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

A major new project, funded by Emma Bloomberg’s education nonprofit Murmuration, in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation, is trying to fix that knowledge gap by releasing one of the largest and most in-depth surveys ever completed on Gen Z.

Peter Hamby • Out with The Olds!

Be a “researcher” in relationships.

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

It also provided invaluable insight for the squadron commander and set him on a path to address the right issue: connection and inclusion versus busyness and exhaustion.

Brené Brown • Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Many students would routinely claim that systemic forces were working against them, yet they seemed pleased to demonstrate how special they were for rising above those impediments.

Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour says that regarding friendship for girls, “quality trumps quantity.” The happiest girls “aren’t the ones who have the most friendships but the ones who have strong, supportive friendships, even if that means having a single terrific friend.”[82] (She notes that this is true for boys as well.) Once girls flocked

Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

On a daily basis, she learns what kind of girl she is “required” to be in order to be accepted by a group, or the consequence of standing her ground.

Rosalind Wiseman • Queen Bees and Wannabes, 3rd Edition: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boys, and the New Realities of Girl World

Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist, published a paper in 1984 called “The 2 Sigma Problem.”1 In this paper, Bloom reported that the average student tutored one-to-one performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a conventional classroom environment. This means that the average tutored student scored higher than 98