With intimate reporting and insightful analysis, Mroz reveals new awareness about the impact of women’s friendships, and how they shape our culture at large. Mroz takes a new look at how friendship has evolved throughout history, showing how friends tend to share more genetic commonalities than strangers, and that the more friends we have, the more empathy and pleasure chemicals. Scientists have also reported that friendship directly influences health and longevity women with solid, supportive friendships experience fewer “fight or flight” impulses and stronger heart function, and women without friendships tend to develop medical challenges on par with those associated with smoking and excessive body weight. 'In Girl Talk, veteran reporter Jacqueline Mroz explores the true nature of female friendship-a phenomenon that's as culturally powerful as it is individually mysterious. Mroz takes a new look at how friendship has evolved throughout history, showing how friends tend to share more genetic commonalities than strangers, and that the more friends we have, the more empathy and pleasure chemicals are present in our brains. She examines friendship from a range of angles, from the historical to the experiential, with a scientific analysis that reveals new truths about what leads us to connect and build alliances, and then “break up” when a friendship no longer serves us. In Girl Talk, New York Times science reporter Jacqueline Mroz takes on the science of female friendship - a phenomenon thats as culturally powerful as it.

In Girl Talk, New York Times science reporter Jacqueline Mroz takes on the science of female friendship–a phenomenon that’s as culturally powerful as it is individually mysterious.

Girl Talk by Jacqueline Mroz