Kathryn Bates receives funding from the Economic Social Research Council. Anyone who has experienced loneliness knows how deeply personal it feels. We feel lonely when our social and emotional ...

Anyone who has experienced loneliness knows how deeply personal it feels. We feel lonely when our social and emotional needs aren't being met. Because of this, psychological research often focuses ...

A recent Seoul Institute survey revealed that 62 per cent of single-person households reported experiencing loneliness, while 13.6 per cent were socially isolated. A separate 2023 study by the ...

While physiological and behavioral risk factors are well-documented, the role of psychosocial factors such as loneliness has been underexplored. This study sought to determine whether loneliness ...

When we hear the word “friendless,” it’s hard not to imagine a person consumed by loneliness—isolated, and lacking something essential in their lives. But does being without friends really ...

The ruling has sparked grave concern within the Greek Orthodox Church, which denounced what it described as “an attempt to alter a system that has been in place for 15 centuries.” ...

We are living in an era of unprecedented technological mediation, where our most intimate experiences are being increasingly filtered through artificial systems that promise understanding but ...

On May 17, 2025, loneliness comes to an end for three zodiac signs. During the powerful astrological transit of Sun conjunct Uranus, we are about to experience a very positive and uplifting break.

Before COVID, before H1N1, before walking pneumonia, there was a different kind of pandemic — one that persists and continues to affect millions: loneliness. Psychology Today defines loneliness as ...

If you love coffee, chances are you really love your morning brew. Perhaps T.S. Eliot’s immortal line from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” rings true for you: “I have measured out my ...

Mark Zuckerberg is right that our nation is beset by an epidemic of loneliness. People of every age now too often find themselves isolated from family, with too few friends and little to keep them ...