Feelings of isolation, alienation, aloneness and loneliness are pervasive in the twenty-first century. Scientific studies suggest some possible linkage between feelings of chronic loneliness and heart ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New longitudinal evidence suggests that moments of awe, even during pandemic isolation, may help buffer ...

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Loneliness is defined as “a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception that one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships.” ...

When the surgeon general of the United States talks about what we all need more of, you might expect him to mention vegetables or exercise. But Vivek Murthy instead told us that we all need more ...

You think you understand loneliness until you enter Yasunari Kawabata’s world. In 'Snow Country' and beyond, silence carries more weight than confession, and distance lingers inside intimacy. His ...

The loneliness epidemic isn’t slowing, in fact, the rates are alarmingly increasing, particularly in Black and LGBTQ+ folks. Tragically, the progress our country has made over the past several decades ...

As loneliness reaches epidemic levels worldwide, work has become one of the main settings where connection is either strengthened or lost. In 2023, Vivek Murthy, the former surgeon general of the ...