Lectures on Tap - The Science of Friendship

Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in LA bars. 📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email 🧠 Lecture: "The Science of Friendship" 🎤 Speaker: Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems Friendship is as fundamental a human need as food, water, and shelter. Friends improve our mental health, boost our happiness, and even lengthen our lives. Yet finding and keeping close friends has never felt harder: every other American aches for more social connection, and one in five single men reports having zero friends. In this engaging talk, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems will explain how evolution wired our brains for friendship, what friends do for us, and why genuine connection can be surprisingly difficult to achieve. Drawing on cutting-edge research from psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, she will reveal how we can harness the emerging science of friendship to build “anti-lonely” brains, stronger communities, and a brighter social future. Dr. Krems is a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology at UCLA and Co-founder/Director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, the first academic hub dedicated to decoding and strengthening human social connection. Her award-winning work appears in leading scientific journals and has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times and The Atlantic. Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌 Agenda 7:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key. 7:55 PM – Host introduction 8:00 PM – Lecture begins 8:45 PM – Audience Q&A 9:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round 9:30 PM – Wrap up.