As suggested by previous research, friends provide companionship (in addition to more social trust and less stress), intimacy, and help, which increase an individual's life satisfaction (see, for example, Demir and Weitekamp 2007).
Change your oil, fill your wiper fluid (it's pretty buggy out there), grab your research, friends, and good music, and hit the road singing.
When someone described Twitter as "one big focus group," I wrote, "For those of U who think Twitter's a focus group, have you ever BEEN 2 a good one?" and my entire column of market-research friends tweeted that they agreed that the focus group analogy was a bit of a stretch.
In Cold Blood was published in 1966 to great acclaim but Capote never publicly acknowledged the reporting and research his friend conducted for the book.
In fact, in 1997, when I was at Intel summarizing my research, my friend Andy Grove said, "If you call it disruption, you will mislead the world".
One thing I've felt fairly certain of, however, especially given the research my friend Katty Kay and I have recently turned up for a new book we're writing on women and confidence, is that the traditional princess conceit isn't great for girls and their confidence.
While a lot of people have some sort of cover through their work, about half of the adult population has none, according to research by Friends Provident.
IF casual research among friends and family is any indication, this holiday season will find airports and train stations decked with only the most dedicated of travelers.
"It's shocking that in the wake of the BP disaster last year, Shell has tried to keep the largest North Sea oil spill for a decade hush-hush," said Mike Childs, head of science, policy and research at Friends of the Earth.
New research by Friends of the Earth suggests that industrial lobbying affected the EU's shale gas policy-making process, with business groups holding at least 10 times more meetings with EU officials about the proposed legislation, than did NGOs.
