How loneliness is breaking hearts in the most literal sense and what the research reveals about the risk
Loneliness has spent most of its history as a subject for poets and philosophers rather than cardiologists and epidemiologists. That is changing. A growing and increasingly rigorous body of research is documenting the physical health consequences of chronic social isolation with enough precision to reframe loneliness from a purely emotional experience into a significant and […]
Why feeling alone is more dangerous than being alone
You can be in a room full of people and still feel completely invisible. Most of us understand that feeling intuitively, but now science is catching up. Loneliness has far less to do with how many people are in your life and far more to do with how you feel within those relationships. The first […]
Short video addiction is quietly destroying your mental health
What begins as a quick scroll through TikTok can quietly unravel into something far more serious. A new longitudinal study published in The Journal of Psychology has mapped out a precise psychological pathway connecting short video addiction to a measurable decline in life satisfaction and the findings give heavy users plenty of reasons to reconsider […]
Loneliness may quietly damage memory in older adults
Feeling lonely could be doing more damage to the aging brain than previously understood but perhaps not in the way most people would expect. A new study involving more than 10,000 older adults across 12 European countries found that those who reported higher levels of loneliness performed worse on memory tests from the outset. Notably, […]
The health benefits of having boring conversations
Health benefit of everyday talk, most people have done it. Spotted a coworker heading toward the break room at the same time and quietly changed course, or scrolled through a phone to avoid chatting with a stranger in a waiting room. The assumption is always the same that the conversation will be tedious, awkward or […]