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To Counter Loneliness, Find Ways to Connect
A four-minute film produced for the UnLonely Film Festival and Conference last month featured a young woman who, as a college freshman, felt painfully alone. She desperately missed her familiar haunts and high school buddies
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Why Some People Get Little Pleasure From Social Interaction
Social interaction is considered to be such an important contributor to physical and mental well-being that individuals who show relatively low drive for and pleasure from interacting with others are sometimes given a clinical diagnosis
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The psychology of why you feel alone even when you’re surrounded by people
Despite the world’s population creeping upward by around 200,000 people a day, many of us have never felt as alone. We are more connected than ever before, yet we somehow feel more isolated. We have
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Harlow’s Classic Studies Revealed the Importance of Maternal Contact
Harry Harlow’s empirical work revolutionized the scientific understanding of the influence of social relationships in early development.
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The New Retirement: Near the Kids
Thirty-five years ago, Holly Bowers Ruben moved from California to New York, following an actor boyfriend to Brooklyn. The relationship didn’t last, but Ms. Ruben never moved back, although her mother, Marie-Louise Bowers, stayed out
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Variations of Loneliness Include Implicit Anti-Black Bias
Scientists from around the world, including APS Board Member Stacey Sinclair, discuss their research on the origins, varieties, and consequences of loneliness.