Episode 3 - Friendship

In this weeks episode of The Health and Happiness Podcast, Travis and Lauryn discuss friendships. We take our research all the way back to Aristotle to help understand different types of friendships and fast forward to look into newer research and our own lives about why they're important, how they can impact your health, how to make and be a good friend.

Resources:

Loneliness negative impacts on health:

https://www.cdc.gov/aging/publications/features/lonely-older-adults.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754055/

Peer pressure in kids:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18253/w18253.pdf

Obesity effects of adult relationships:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/friends-family-may-play-role-obesity#:~:text=In%20same%2Dsex%20friendships%2C%20a,mutual%20friend%20had%20became%20obese.&text=There%20was%20no%20effect%20among%20neighbors%20unless%20they%20were%20also%20friends.

5 Love Languages book:

https://amzn.to/37gk6zt

In a tangent, Travis suggests that women are better at picking stocks because of being less emotional. There are several reasons suggested in the research about why women tend to outperform men when investing, but here is an source that refers to a study from Warwick business school confirming Travis' comment:

https://www.wealthify.com/blog/invest-like-a-girl-what-women-could-teach-us-about-investing

There is a caveat here though in that women are less likely to hold any investments at all than men, but consistently in the science, when women do invest they outperform their male counterparts.
Travis also states that he doesn't think that happiness makes you more in the stock market, but then questions his assumption that they may not be related. Happy people earn more money according to several studies including this one:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/dsgroi/events/entrepreneur_12th_march_2019_-_happiness_and_productivity.pdf

And happy people may earn more in the stock market, but there isn't a lot of evidence to support that. Here's what I found:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/27/the-link-between-wealth-happiness-and-investing-success.html