Loneliness Surging Among Millennials

According to internet market research firm YouGov, “the social media generation is the one that feels the most alone.” Their latest report ...

Can Artificial Intelligence Provide Intimacy?

MIT professor Dr. Sherry Turkle tells the following story:

Years ago I spoke with a 16-year-old girl who was considering the idea of having a computer ...

Loneliness Is an Epidemic with Physical Impact

Researchers created a banal scenario: a group of people would play a frivolous game of catch, tossing the ball to one another to pass the time, trying ...

US Surgeon General Says Loneliness Is Health Care Crisis

From 2014 to 2017 Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. From this vantage point he identified one of the ...

Students Are Hungry For Relational Bonding

New York Times columnist David Brooks went around the country interviewing students at some of the most prestigious campuses in America. He admits that ...

When We Are Connected to Each Other We Thrive

In his book Being Mortal, Medical Doctor Atul Gawande describes the story of Bill Thomas, a man who in the 1990s started working as the medical director ...

Research Shows Having Solid Friends Adds Years to Life

In his blog, Eric Barker cites an important study on the crucial value of friendship:

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Brigham ...

Japanese Company Rents Instant Family and Friends

A Japanese business called "Family Romance" has actors for hire, ready and willing to be anything from your baby to your grandparent. "In ...

Belgian Hotel Rents Fish to Lonely Guests

Traveling by yourself isn't always the most fun: You might start to miss home, your family, your friends. A hotel in Belgium has come up with an idea ...

Legal Definition of a Facebook 'Friendship'

Are your friends on Facebook actually your friends? According to an appeals court in Florida, "[l]egally, Facebook friends aren't necessarily ...