This listening lesson focusses on content the psychology of having contact with an extended social networks, and addresses skills related to listening for specific details and taking notes from a lecture.
View this TED talk about the subtle ways that our behaviour and beliefs are affected not only by those we live and work with, but by our much wider social circles as well.
Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits - from happiness to obesity - can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't even know.