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 ...

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A new study sheds light on the effects of aloneness on group processes, demonstrating that simply being alone can significantly weaken group identity and esteem. Led by Prof. Liad Uziel, from the ...

In the critically acclaimed The Lonely City (2017), the writer Olivia Laing extolled the pleasures as well as the pains of loneliness, identifying loneliness as a creative enterprise as well as a ...