Examined Lives: Lonelineness (Session 46)

In this session, Steve Gilbert will lead us in a discussion about "loneliness" and what evolutionary thinking can tell us about it in the modern day.  A couple of interesting resources to explore, below:

• TED talk by John Cacioppo
  
• Evolutionary Mechanisms for Loneliness (see attached PDF)

A couple more additional links, for the intrepid:

• The loneliness myth: what our shared stories of feeling alone reveal about why you can’t ‘fix’ this very human experience
  • by Sam Carr, Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
    
• Interesting post on Jonathan Haidt’s substack, After Babel, about the impact of social media on youth friendships.

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