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...Psychologists call this the Lake Wobegon effect - after the fictitious Minnesota town invented by Garrison Keillor, who described it as a place "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average." We all tend to be overconfident about ourselves in surprising ways. About 90% of drivers think they are safer than the average driver. Most people also think they are less likely than others to get divorced, have heart disease or get fired. Likewise, according to a late-August poll by CNN/Opinion Research Corp., more than 60% of Americans surveyed...
...know what each other know. Intimates think the way we think and they know what we know, whereas people who are what the sociologists call "weak ties" don't. They're different from us, they link to other networks and different kinds of information, and therefore they are the place where we find opportunity...
What is the power of place? We can't talk about relationships without talking about the context in which they occur. If you just think of yourself walking through the bad part of town, you're on guard, your shoulders are up near your ears, your heart might be beating a little bit faster, you're not exactly open to having conversations with strangers. But if you're in a welcoming, safe environment, whether it's a store or a park or the barbershop where you know some people or the tavern on the corner, you're more likely...
...step programs fit into this? Oh, absolutely. [That's] what sociologists call a single-stranded relationship. It's around an activity, a place - we know [people] from the coffee shop or the gym. We know them because we stuff envelopes with them at a fundraiser. And so AA is very much like that. They're all there trying to heal, and you quickly get to a very, very deep level of exposure because you're talking about your personal life. But once you go home, you may speak with these people on the phone, you may meet them for coffee...
...Martin says that she believes HUDS’ University affiliation gives it a unique place within the College...