Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you’re like most people, you want more friends—and you may ...

Friendship is vital for our health and happiness, but we don’t always prioritize it. The Optimist’s Maggie Penman goes on a journey to make new friends and learn why so many of us are craving ...

Making friends as an adult can be challenging thanks to competing responsibilities, fewer built-in social structures and less practice. Below, experts share helpful tips for how to improve your social ...

Forming adult friendships takes time and patience. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News, photos: Getty Images) When Shannon Watts, the founder of gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action, listened ...

Making friends never came easily to me. I had the social disaster trifecta: introverted, shy, and relatively awkward. Throughout school and college, I always envied people who could befriend everyone ...

This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. In the fall of 2020, I bought a used Kia Spectra, packed my life into a moving van, ...

On a recent Thursday evening in downtown Washington, I took a deep breath and walked into a bar. I joined a couple dozen other women who were milling around making small talk and ordering drinks, ...

You may feel like you can read your friend’s mind or that you can finish each other’s sentences. It’s not your imagination. There is new scientific proof that your friends influence you ...

Every friendship begins with some sign that two people are interested in becoming friends. To make a new friend, we can communicate that we like a certain person, we want to spend time with them, and ...

I've been able to encourage hundreds of people to try to make friends by explaining to them the science of connection. Here's ...