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Fostering High-Quality Connections

How to deal with corrosive relationships at work by Jane Dutton, Ph.D, the pioneering social scientist who identified high-quality connections as powerful resources for positive workplace cultures.

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Making Time for Friends

Making Time for Friends: A Scientific How-To Guide for Maintaining and Strengthening Friendship in Adulthood

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Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships

This article by Harry T. Reis and Shelly L. Gable examines how relationships affect well-being. “Relationships are an important, and perhaps the most important, source of life satisfaction and emotional well-being.”

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Relationship Motivation Theory

“. . . the highest quality personal relationships are ones in which each partner supports the autonomy, competence, and relatedness needs of the other.”

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