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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

by John T. Cacioppo
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Author: John T. Cacioppo

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0393335283
ISBN 13: 978-0393335286

“One of the most important books about the human condition to appear in a decade.”―Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness

University of Chicago social neuroscientist John T. Cacioppo unveils his pioneering research on the startling effects of loneliness: a sense of isolation or social rejection disrupts not only our thinking abilities and will power but also our immune systems, and can be as damaging as obesity or smoking. A blend of biological and social science, this book demonstrates that, as individuals and as a society, we have everything to gain, and everything to lose, in how well or how poorly we manage our need for social bonds.

12 illustrations