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Welcome to “HumanLab: The Science Between Us,” with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.

Welcome to a very special show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life.

Join us tonight for an enlightening show on heartbreak — why it’s actually adaptive and how to recover from it — with science from both the human and animal world.

And don’t forget to buy our science-based and amusing books — support our show while entertaining yourself and learning a thing or two to improve your life. Amy’s book is “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck” and Jennifer’s is “Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship and Mating Tell Us about Human Relationships.”

This article appears in Dec 14-21, 2016.

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Heartbreak Help From Science, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin

by Hayley Jo Murphy, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 28, 2016

<h1>Heartbreak Help From Science, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin</h1> <p class="byline">by Hayley Jo Murphy, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 28, 2016</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> </div> <p> Welcome to <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2016/12/19/heartbreak-help-from-science-with-amy-alkon-and-dr-jennifer-verdolin" target="_blank">"HumanLab: The Science Between Us,"</a> with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.</p> <p>Welcome to a very special show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life.</p> <p>Join us tonight for an enlightening show on heartbreak — why it's actually adaptive and how to recover from it — with science from both the human and animal world.</p> <p>And don’t forget to buy our science-based and amusing books — support our show while entertaining yourself and learning a thing or two to improve your life. Amy’s book is <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Good-Manners-Nice-People-Sometimes/dp/1250030714?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1250030714&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl&amp;sa-no-redirect=1&amp;tag=advicegoddess-20" target="_blank">"Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck"</a> and Jennifer’s is <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Wild-Connection-Animal-Courtship-Relationships/dp/1616149469?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sa-no-redirect=1" target="_blank">"Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship and Mating Tell Us about Human Relationships."</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/heartbreak-help-from-science-with-amy-alkon-and-dr-jennifer-verdolin-2773865/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=22253&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/heartbreak-help-from-science-with-amy-alkon-and-dr-jennifer-verdolin-2773865/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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