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139 - The Friendship Cure

You Are Not So Smart

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The Science of Loneliness

Loneliness is more dangerous than smoking 15 cigarettes a day and more closely linked to our mortality than smoking and obesity. Where are all the campaigns telling us it's desperately important for our health to make friends? Well, I know, so we're primates and we're gregarious and we need social grooming. And there's no solitary primate out there. But obviously this is going to hurt us to be feel that fear of being alone and truly being,. even if you haven't been ostracized, you're still getting the emotional responses that you would. We want to connect to people. We don't want to be alone.

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