
Are Smartphones Really Destroying the Lives of Teenagers?
Recent headlines would have us believe that device-hooked teens are mentally and socially doomed. The reality isn't so simple
Carlin Flora is a freelance writer and author of Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are (Doubleday, 2013). Credit: Nick Higgins
Recent headlines would have us believe that device-hooked teens are mentally and socially doomed. The reality isn't so simple
Can women and men be friends? Attraction plays a significant role in opposite-sex friendship, but that doesn't make the bond any less beneficial
Attraction plays a significant role in opposite-sex friendship, but that doesn't make the bond less beneficial
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