For about the past year, I’ve been subscribed to a newsletter from Gimundo. The Web site’s slogan is “Good News…Served Daily.” Well…it’s not exactly served daily; for the last few months I didn’t receive one newsletter and forgot that I was even subscribed to it. However, over the past week they seem to have picked up the pace a bit.
Thursday’s newsletter featured Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project and her article Eight Psychological Terms to Help You Strengthen Your Friendships.
Those eight terms are:

Triadic closure
Emotional contagion
The mere exposure effect
Fundamental attribution error
Warmth
Smiling
Subliminal touching
Situation evocation

I was quite interested in triadic closure (making friends …read more