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Fran (Daisy Ridley) has a complex and creative inner world that she escapes into in order to feel real.
A recent study showed encouraging people with obesity to interact with others more can keep them alive for longer.
The need to connect is fundamental. But diminishing social ties and community support are contributing to the loneliness epidemic.
Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.
COVID was a ‘gendered pandemic’, with women carrying very different burdens to men. A three-year New Zealand research project aimed to overcome the urge to forget, and provide lessons for the future.
As far back as the dawn of the internet, scholars have discussed how AI might serve to replace (or supplement) human relationships.
Don’t believe the hype about products claiming they can help you live longer. Here are five lifestyle changes to prioritise instead.
Young people were experiencing increasing rates of loneliness well before the pandemic shut things down.
Homesickness will affect almost everyone at some point in their life.
Inflammation could be the missing puzzle piece.
It’s important to identify the root causes of your stress and to find the coping mechanisms that work best for you.
Autistic people are not only more likely to feel lonely but are also more likely to experience it more acutely than non-autistic people according to new research.
Psychology researchers have focused on the idea that people form friendships with those who are similar, familiar and nearby. But how do individual people pick those who will become their friends?
Humans are social beings so it’s no wonder that feeling isolated can affect the way we think
COVID lockdowns and the rise of the gig economy have led to loneliness becoming an issue in the workplace.
For people who feel lonely, a trip to the supermarket could help – if only the store provided opportunities to chat at the checkout. A Dutch chain has done just that, and customers and staff love it.
More than half our interviewees described feelings of profound anguish as long COVID forced them to doubt their identity and question their life purpose
An increase in anti-Asian hate incidents during the pandemic contributed to a rise in depression among Asian and Asian American college students, a study found.
At least half of surveyed US adults experienced loneliness and social isolation.
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Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Research Fellow, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
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Professor Applied Social and Policy Research; Director, Centre for Loneliness Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor, Academy of Geography, Sociology and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Professor of English, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Gerontology and Public Health, Brunel University of London
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Professor & Director, Hub for Apple Platform Innovation (HAPI), School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Associate Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Professor of Urban Health and Environment, UNSW
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Professor in Modern History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, King's College London
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Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Cities and Planetary Health, ARC Future Fellow in nature-based solutions for loneliness, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Psychology and Inclusion, University of Bristol