Leonard Mlodinow Social Quotations

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.