How to get your friends to like you

But the experience of clicking is unforgettable. Everything the other person says resonates with you. Your speech rhythms match. Conversation flows like rushing water, unimpeded by a single awkward silence and unruffled by even a moment of annoyance, puzzlement, or misunderstanding: the social equivalent of a flawless, gold-medal ski run.

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Content:

• 15 Types of Friends You Should Get Rid Of Immediately
• What you should do if you find yourself falling for a friend
• 13 Friend Zone Hacks: How to Get Your Friend to Like You More
• 10 Simple Ways to Make People Like You More
• Dealing with a toxic friendship
• 8 ways to bond with a friend to become even closer

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15 Types of Friends You Should Get Rid Of Immediately

But the experience of clicking is unforgettable. Everything the other person says resonates with you. Your speech rhythms match. Conversation flows like rushing water, unimpeded by a single awkward silence and unruffled by even a moment of annoyance, puzzlement, or misunderstanding: the social equivalent of a flawless, gold-medal ski run.

The experience of clicking can seem, in short, near-miraculous…which is just the sort of challenge neuroscientists like. Your body language matches, what catches your attention catches his, you become impatient at the same time about the same things. As her partner offered comfort and sympathy, the researchers measured brain activity in each partner.

These brain waves are a mark of focused attention. Each couple was in sync, mirroring one another neurologically in terms of what they were focusing on—her pain, his efforts to comfort her maybe second thoughts about volunteering for scientific experiments.

Seeing someone you love suffer is hopefully an unusual experience, but neural synchrony occurs in mundane situations, as well. You click more with friends than with non-friends, which fits with our intuition that we resonate with some people more than others.

There seem to be neurobiological reasons for that. The brain regions with the most similar activity among friends included subcortical areas such as the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala, which are involved in motivation and processing emotions. Wheatley calls it neural homophily the idea that like befriends like. This increased predictability makes it easier to interact and communicate, which makes conversations and shared experiences more enjoyable.

It also makes friendships more likely. That raises the question of whether demographic traits cause particular neural patterns.

If so, then similar brain-activity patterns in friends would simply be the result of people with similar education levels, ethnicities, and other traits—perhaps including ideological beliefs, recreational interests, and cultural preferences—gravitating toward one another. In other words, maybe those traits made people friends, and the neural activity was secondary, a mere bystander to the actual cause.

The scientists knew they had to settle that, and they think they did. Wheatley and her colleagues used standard statistical techniques to measure whether neural patterns were a so-called independent variable, not a mere reflection of something else such as a demographic variable.

They were. Even when controlling for similarities in age, gender, nationality, and ethnicity, brain-activity patterns were more similar between friends than friends of friends and greater-degrees-of-separation friends. She is conducting further studies to see whether shared experience drives neural similarity. She also plans to study strangers, measure their neurological responses to video clips, and see if similarity predicts whether they become friends when they meet.

The emerging understanding of clicking might shed light on some social mysteries. This describes some people on the autism spectrum, but clicking has not been specifically studied in this population. Short of connecting brains with electrodes to sync their activity, there might be a way to increase your chances of clicking.

We feel more connected with people whose postures, vocal rhythms, facial expressions, and even eyeblinks match our own. The complex things we do together—playing soccer, architecture, creating the internet, not to mention simply getting along—require us to quickly coordinate our actions. This article was originally published in the August issue of Mindful magazine.

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What you should do if you find yourself falling for a friend

Updated: May 5, References. It's not uncommon for people to fall in love for their close friends, but if you've fallen for one of your friends, getting that same friend to fall for you in return can be a challenge. While there's no way to guarantee a change in someone else's feelings, there are a few things you can do to increase the odds of making a friend fall in love with you. For instance, dropping hints about your feelings, becoming a shoulder to lean on, and knowing when to back off can all encourage your friend to start viewing you in a more romantic context.

But what if you want to turn your current best friend into your partner? Well, as one of the few people who has done it successfully, I can tell you that it's as HARD and embarrassing and painful as you think it is. But for me, it was worth it in the end no matter what came out of it. I'm a big advocate of sharing your feelings, or at least acting on them in some way. Here are some steps to get you started.

13 Friend Zone Hacks: How to Get Your Friend to Like You More

Updated: July 28, References. We all want to be liked. If you struggle with feeling confident and comfortable in the presence of others, though, you're not alone. Fortunately, you can learn a few concrete skills and practices to try to make yourself and the best, most fun, and most confident version of yourself. Learn to act, look, and be the kind of person other people want to be with. To become the kind of person that people want to be around, start by presenting yourself with confidence and letting yourself have fun. People will be drawn to you if you make life feel like an adventure, so try to be more spontaneous and agreeable by saying "yes" to plans with friends more often. When you talk to people, speak clearly and confidently about your ideas, and try to avoid starting sentences with "I don't really know

10 Simple Ways to Make People Like You More

Updated: March 29, References. Wanting to be liked is a natural instinct. Wanting to have a best friend is also something that most people desire. The problem is, not everyone knows how to do this. When you're talking to people, try to be confident in yourself by standing up straight, smiling, and making eye contact.

Falling in love with your best friend is a very common tale. Now you want to know how to make her fall in love with you. When it comes to getting a girl to fall in love with you , creating an emotional connection and a sense of trust and safety are the hardest things to do. What you need to do now is change the dynamic of your relationship, moving from trusted friend to the type of man she can see herself having passion with.

Dealing with a toxic friendship

Passionate love that can turn toxic and sour or even just Friendships are also complex dances that can end in tears and breakups. If some of your connections just don't feel right anymore, you might be wondering how to know when to end a friendship.

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Have you ever asked yourself how you could get your friend fall in love with you? For many, it seems like a complicated situation and depending on the person, maybe it is. You should work on your appearance. Whether you admit this or not, men are generally interested in the way a woman looks. In fact, they almost always consider looks first when it comes to asking a woman out on a date. With this thought in mind, make sure your hair has been properly kept and your teeth , skin and nails are taken care of.

8 ways to bond with a friend to become even closer

My close friends mean the world to me. They are there for me when I need them. My life is so much richer because of my friends. For example, one of my best friends is my ex-husband. It took years of work to move through heart-ache, anger, grief, and resentment in order to find the strong friendship we have now. To create a true friendship takes a lot of effort and dedication. In the past, I learned a hard lesson about friends. I was a professional musician at the time and Director of one of the oldest and most renowned music schools in Australasia.

In fact, not many people know how to do it. You know them the best. This gives you so many opportunities to squeeze your way past that friendship barrier and get them to like you. I get how irritating it can be.

This post is in partnership with Inc. The article below was originally published at Inc. Have you noticed there are people who always seem to be more likable? In a recent episode of the new ABC drama Mind Games , one of the characters mentions an interesting personality trait that defines the most popular people: they more readily admit their weaknesses rather than waiting for them to be revealed over time.

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