Don’t You Want Some Body to Love: Loneliness Is Associated with Lower Interoceptive Sensibility

Loneliness—perceived social isolation—is a fundamentally human aversive state and (sometimes) trait. Across cross-sectional and longitudinal samples, we used hierarchical multiple regression to demonstrate loneliness’ correlation with relevant socio-emotional constructs. Notably, self-reports of interoception—the sense of the physiological condition of the body—were a strong negative predictor loneliness.