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Are we in a ‘loneliness pandemic’? With Louise Hawkley, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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How Much Variation Is There in Our Need for Other People?

How much variation is there in our need for other people? Well it's a good question. When i was working with john cassiopo we developed a model of loneliness, an evolutionary theory based model. And so the idea there with loneliness is that although we're all innately social, we have very different social needs and possibly for very good reasons.

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