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*[https://hbr.org/2022/08/how-to-build-real-relationships-at-work How to build real relations at work], Harvard Business Review
*[https://hbr.org/2022/08/how-to-build-real-relationships-at-work How to build real relations at work], Harvard Business Review
== Friendship and trends in the United States ==
== Friendship and growing social isolation in the United States ==
''See also:'' [[Loneliness]]
David B. Brooks in his 2023 book entitled ''How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen'' wrote:
David B. Brooks in his 2023 book entitled ''How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen'' wrote:
{{Cquote|The percentage of Americans who said they have no close friends quadrupled between 1990 and 2020. In one survey, 54 percent of Americans reported that no one knows them well.
{{Cquote|The percentage of Americans who said they have no close friends quadrupled between 1990 and 2020. In one survey, 54 percent of Americans reported that no one knows them well.
In 2013, Americans spent an average of six and a half hours per week with friends. By 2019, they were spending only four hours per week with friends, a 38 percent drop. By 2021, as the Covid-19 pandemic was easing, they were spending only two hours and forty-five minutes per week with friends, a 58 percent decline. The General Social Survey asks Americans to rate their happiness levels. Between 1990 and 2018, the share of Americans who put themselves in the lowest happiness category increased by more than 50 percent.<ref>Brooks, David. How to Know a Person (p. 97-98). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.</ref>}}
In 2013, Americans spent an average of six and a half hours per week with friends. By 2019, they were spending only four hours per week with friends, a 38 percent drop. By 2021, as the Covid-19 pandemic was easing, they were spending only two hours and forty-five minutes per week with friends, a 58 percent decline. The General Social Survey asks Americans to rate their happiness levels. Between 1990 and 2018, the share of Americans who put themselves in the lowest happiness category increased by more than 50 percent.<ref>Brooks, David. How to Know a Person (p. 97-98). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.</ref>}}
== Liberals and friendship ==
== Liberals and friendship ==