Status Updates From Loneliness: Human Nature an...

Solving the problem is probably possible ... how is maybe not so evident.

Some stressors make you stronger ...but isolation and loneliness does not. On the contrary.

"The students high in loneliness, compared to those low in loneliness, reported lower levels of social support, higher levels of shyness, poorer social skills, higher anger, higher anxiety, lower self-esteem, higher fear of negative evaluation, lower optimism, lower positive mood, and higher negative mood." Loneliness in young men - e.g. non access to connections to women - may cause aggression (Incel) or depression?

Evolution of the social brain and evolution of co-regulation.

Loneliness is the pain of the social brain which drives us to social connection.

“Because the emotional system that governs human self-preservation was built for a primitive environment and simple, direct dangers, it can be extremely naïve. It is impressionable and prefers shallow, social, and anecdotal information to abstract data. But the same irrational processes that can bring us down can also be the foundation of our finest qualities as human beings.”

“Our sociality is central to who we are. Using loneliness as a window on human nature gets us beyond abstract (and therefore sometimes not terribly useful) debates about whether we are fundamentally Hobbesian beasts or ‘just a little lower than the angels.’ ”

“At times, social science research may seem like one of those reality shows with a hidden camera that traps unwary people in ridiculous, almost sadistic, situations.”

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