Sharing Data About Friendliness Helps Young People Make Friends

Don't be shy: Others are more open than you think.

- BY JAMIL ZAKI AND RUI PEI

THE COLLEGE YEARS ONCE ranked among the happiest times of most people’s lives, but that’s changed. Young adults face an escalating mental health crisis, fueled in part by loneliness. In 2023, 19% of young adults reported having no one they could c