The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter runs 11.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Donna Postel (about 7.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 23 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.3 hours, it runs longer than 80% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Donna Postel
Donna Postel narrates 155 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,608 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,377 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter is an audiobook by Susan Pinker: a 11.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Donna Postel, released September 8, 2014, on the Social Science and Mental Health & Psychology shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Donna Postel
- Released
- September 8, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Mental Health & Psychology, Self-Development
- ISBN
- 9781494572174
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter as an audiobook?
The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter runs 11.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.6 hours.
Is The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter?
The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter is narrated by Donna Postel.
Is The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.6 hours, saving 3.8 hours.