Divorce

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A 2013 study in the journal Social Forces found that friends of divorcees were 75 percent more likely to get a divorce than someone whose friends were still married. When a friend of a friend got divorced, married couples were 33 percent more likely to split. The study authors suggest that helping friends work out their relationship issues could strengthen your own relationship, too. The results also found that married people with the most friends were the least likely to break up, so try expanding your social network while supporting friends in rocky relationships.

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Body quirks

Body quirks
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Yawning, laughing, itching, coughing, vomiting and crying are all socially contagious. Yawning is so infectious, says psychologist Robert R. Provine, author of Curious Behaviour, that we yawn when we see, hear, or even read about someone else doing it. “We are often herd animals, not in full conscious control of our behaviour,” he says. Scientists theorise that sharing these quirks conferred an evolutionary advantage: Laughter is a form of bonding; scratching an itch, a safety precaution. (Your brain may think, Hey, their fleas could jump ship and infest me.) Yawning could be how cavemen ancestors synchronised their sleep-wake schedules.

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