"Our New Social Life: Science-Backed Strategies for Creating Meaningful Connection" is a self-help book written by Natalie Kerr and Jaime Kurtz and published in 2025 .

This book aims to help readers improve their social lives by identifying and overcoming barriers to social connection. The authors provide research-based strategies for removing these barriers and living a more connected life.

The book argues that social connection is an essential human need, not a luxury It explores the norms of modern life that can negatively impact social lives and offers advice on how to push back against them. The book also delves into common errors in social thinking that can distort our view of the social world [7], and how to develop more accurate ways of thinking about social connections.

The authors emph ...