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Record W4414309014 · doi:10.5590/jsbhs.2025.19.1753

Book Review of The Art and Science of Connection by Kasley Killam

2025· article· en· W4414309014 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Harit Agroia

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Social Behavioral and Health Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicBusiness Strategy and Innovation
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersKillam TrustsStrong
KeywordsMental healthKey (lock)Social determinants of healthSocial lifeQuality (philosophy)Component (thermodynamics)

Abstract

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<em>The Art and Science of Social Connection</em> by Kasley Killam presents a case for better understanding individual health by ensuring that the social aspect is considered as a significant component of health in addition to the physical and mental aspects. Killam states that social health consists of an individual’s sense of belonging, the strength of relationships, and meaningful connections. By drawing from years of evidence building, Killam argues that social health is fundamental for one to truly flourish and prosper in their life as people who have stronger social health are shown to have higher quality of life, emotional resilience, and longevity. <em>The Art and Science of Connection</em> is an award-winning, 288-page book that takes the reader through not only understanding social health but also learning how to apply a framework that offers practical strategies to strengthen one’s own social health. As part of discussing key concepts, Killam, an internationally recognized expert in social health, redefines what it means to be healthy, offers a critical lens in examining the types of relationships people may have, including how each type may affect social health differently, argues for making social health a priority by being consistent in strengthening social muscles, and unveils ways that individuals can flourish together by joining a growing movement in social health. The aim of this review was to spotlight Killam’s book as a thoughtful approach for thinking about ways through which everyone can reach optimal health by connecting with others and strengthening their relationships.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.631
Threshold uncertainty score0.395

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.358
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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