Question

Name your best friend, your first close friend, and second close friend. Describe a bit about each of them then give each relationship a score from 1-10 on quality and conflict. Then, explain if this person on average makes you feel happier or less happy. Tie in biological drivers wherever possible. For example, does your best friend make you feel loved, serve as your ‘wing-man’, bring you a sense of security/ safety, surprise you with the best cookie ever when you are upset, or hug you?

Best Friend:

Description of relationship linked to biological drivers:

Conflict Score: (Real World/ reality TV) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (Spongebob & Patrick Star = no conflict)

Quality Score: (Mean Girls) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (top-notch Scooby Doo and Shaggy status)

Does this person predominantly bring you up or down? Explain.

First close friend:

Description of relationship linked to biological drivers:

Conflict Score: (lots of conflict) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (no conflict)

Quality Score: (poor quality) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (wonderful quality)

Does this person predominantly bring you up or down? Explain.

Second close friend:

Description of relationship linked to biological drivers:

Conflict Score: (lots of conflict) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (no conflict)

Quality Score: (poor quality) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (wonderful quality)

Does this person predominantly bring you up or down? Explain.

With your developing understanding of how biology impacts happiness, how can you enhance quality and decrease conflict in your relationships?

Answer 1

As we are living organisms, so our biology plays a very important role in our behavior, biological factors affect our behavior continuously. The drives that stem with our biology are called biological drives such as hunger, the first, sleep, and sex.

Let me talk about my close and second close friends and their activities affect my behavior.

1- _______ is my closest friend since childhood, his behavior is little aggressive than me so that he loves to go gym regularly. His biological drivers like good health, a strong body supports me most of the time and make me safer among other mates.

Conflict score is 6 while his Quality score the s quality score for him is 6.

2- My first close friend is _________, he is my schoolmate as well as nice friend, he is a game lover and always suggest me to participate in sports activity, and his biological drivers make me feel happy and comfortable. He likes to eat junk food so much which became unhealthy for me because I am not able to avoid his request.

His conflict score is 7 and the quality score is 6.

3- My second close friend is my neighbor too, we are living together for a long time, we grew together and done many activities but his behavior towards girls made me embraced many times so I put him on second place. He is a bookish guy so he helped me many times to do my homework.

His conflict score is 6 and the quality score is 4.

I think, better understanding and sharing can reduce the conflicts and increase the quality in a relationship. Any relation depends on both so if we try to understand the behavior and habits, the relationship grows and supports every time.