The key to a long, healthy life is not exercise or diet. It's strong social connections – in other words, friends. The problem: Research shows that men are bad at friendship.
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The Male Deficit Model is based on 30 years of research into friendship and relationships — from
Mayta Caldwell's and Letitia Peplau's 1982 UCLA study, which found that male friendships are far less intimate than female friendships, to a
2007 study at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, which reported greater interpersonal competition and lower friendship satisfaction among men. A just-completed report from California State University Humboldt, meanwhile, holds that the closer men adhere to traditional male gender roles, like self-reliance and a reluctance to spill their guts, the worse their friendships fare.
