Over time, some men become strangers to their own emotional lives.

But the next time you find yourself among strangers, consider that small talk is worth the trouble.

Dunn believes that people who reach out to strangers feel a significantly greater sense of belonging, a bond with others.

Naturally, shy people might not have enough confidence to start up conversations with strangers.

Put a group of strangers in a room together, and they'll probably start a conversation.

She felt nervous when talking to strangers.

She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, everyone on the bus began talking about what the boy had done, and the crowd of strangers suddenly became friendly to one another.

That's how we found our home and how I learned that when people are kind, they are not strangers, only friends we haven't yet met.

Here are five simple ways that you can make the first move and start a conversation with strangers.

In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their counterparts who inhaled something else.

It's that simple: Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.

Most people are not comfortable holding eye contact with strangers.

Strangers are inherently unfamiliar to us, so we are more likely to feel anxious when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances.

The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted on 1, 932 unique subjects which compared pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers.

Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to see that all subjects, friends and strangers, were taken from the same population.