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What Superfans Know That the Rest of Us Should Learn
… After all, so many of us lack community. Data from Cigna finds 58% of Americans are lonely. Religion is fading. Work doesn’t love us back. Maybe letting ourselves be obsessed with that highly specific and possibly weird thing we love
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Is Everyone Out to Get Me? Paranoia in Social Interactions
Podcast: In this episode, Under the Cortex hosts three researchers to discuss paranoia, proposed improvements for clinically testing the social impacts of paranoia, and much more.
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The Loneliness Curve
When Surgeon General Vivek Murthy went on a nationwide college tour last fall, he started to hear the same kind of question time and again: How are we supposed to connect with one another when
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Loneliness Bookends Adulthood, Study Shows
Loneliness in adulthood follows a U-shaped pattern: It’s higher in younger and older adulthood, and lowest during middle adulthood, according to new research that examined nine longitudinal studies from around the world.
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Feeling Lonely Isn’t Just About Being Alone
The more time you spend alone, the more likely you are to be lonely, right? Seems obvious. But it isn’t always true, according to a new study. For instance, it found that although, in general, those
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Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
In its earliest decades, the United States was celebrated for its citizens’ extroversion. Americans weren’t just setting out to build new churches and new cities. Their associations were, as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “of a
