Plays Well with Others

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness\u2014a smart, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining guide to help build better friendships, reignite love, and get closer to others, whether you\u2019re an extrovert or introvert, socially adept or socially anxious.\nCan you judge a book by its cover? \nIs a friend in need truly a friend indeed? \nDoes love conquer all? \nIs no man an island? \nIn Plays Well with Others, Eric Barker dives into these age-old maxims drawing on science to reveal the truth beyond the conventional wisdom about human relationships. Combining his compelling storytelling and humor, Barker explains what hostage negotiation techniques and marital arguments have in common, how an expert con-man lied his way into a twenty-year professional soccer career, and why those holding views diametrically opposed to our own.