Aging Wisely
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We all have something in common. We’re getting older. While this fact might delight children who can’t wait to be “grown-ups,…
We all have something in common. We’re getting older. While this fact might delight children who can’t wait to be “grown-ups,…
Keep your friends…
It’s kind of a big deal. Not having enough friends is the same risk factor as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. When your calendar’s…
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In our over-stressed world, many health care providers, social workers, and caregivers are suffering from slow yet painful…
In medicine, we speak of “seeing patients” when we are rounding in the hospital or caring for those who come to our clinics.
After a lifetime of hard work, millions of baby boomers are retiring in record numbers across the globe. Like any life…
“I’m clearly a textbook case of the silent majority of middle-aged men who won’t admit they’re starved for friendship, even if…
Thanks to the proliferation of digital technologies, never has it been so easy and inexpensive to reach — pretty much anywhere…
schwit1 quotes a report from The New York Times: Social isolation is a growing epidemic (Warning: may be paywalled; alternate…
Carlin Flora in Aeon: Think of a time when you sat across from a friend and felt truly understood. Deeply known. Maybe you…
The NHS needs to go further in preventing illness. Practices concentrate on secondary prevention, but we also need to start…
Kdo bi si mislil, a v ugledni reviji PNAS so objavili izsledke študije, ki je odkrila povezavo med uporabo družabnih omrežij in…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: Study after study has demonstrated a link between strong social connections…
After a lifetime of hard work, thousands of baby boomers are retiring in record numbers across the globe. Like any life…
Many of us believe that the way to become happier and healthier is by spending money on ourselves. We put in extra hours at…
Friendship is a two-way street … sometimes.
There are many reasons why some people live long healthy lives while others don’t, but one of them is undoubtedly genes. That…
Health and…
(Photo: Marc Kjerland/Flickr)Social isolation is bad for your health. In fact, even living alone increases your risk of illness…
In his final novel, Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do…
Science says: Persuasion! A new meta analysis is out on the relationship between loneliness and mortality. Here’s the most…
We humans are social creatures. We love to meet up with our friends, family and partners, and rely on them for support through…
You live alone. The “friends” you see the most are on a sitcom. You’re primary source of social contact is Facebook. If this…
.. “I maintain that sex is regarded as dangerous by the savage, that it is tabooed and ritualized, surrounded by moral and…
Pets can provide their owners with more than companionship. A new study shows they can also help create human-to-human…
Don't overlook these four simple things that can contribute to your lack of oomph in reaching your goals. Typically, when we…
Don't overlook these four simple things that can contribute to your lack of oomph in reaching your goals. Typically, when we…
RICERCA – Stare soli o sentirsi soli sono concetti ben diversi. C’è chi vive ogni giorno in mezzo a un mare di gente eppure…
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to health and nutrition. People, even qualified experts, often seem to have the exact…
People seek to co-design food systems, to participate in shaping them, to recapture them. We were familiar with the slogan of…
Estar solo, o sentirse aislado socialmente, aunque se esté rodeado de gente, perjudica la salud. Así lo afirma un meta-estudio…
Friendship is powerful — everything from pop culture tells us so. But how powerful is it? Turns out that friendship has all…
Dinner with…
By C. Coville Published: September 16th, 2014 If you're reading this on your phone while driving down the highway at…
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Extreme loneliness in older people in the UK is a topic that always ignites debate. Partly because the problem is only getting…
It’s possible to nag somebody to death, and domestic arguments can be fatal—even when there’s no physical violence. It’s long…
Toxic relationships have long been linked to poorer health. But newly published research suggests that, to increase your…
Studies of elderly people and social isolation concluded that those without adequate social interaction were twice as likely to…
Over the winter I moved from New York City to Portland, Ore. The reasons for my move were purely logical. New York was…
You might want to make new friends for various reasons. Maybe your relationship just ended, and many of your friends followed…
Decades of clinical research has explored the psychology of human suffering. Yet that suffering, as unpleasant as it is, often…
The days are long, but the years are short. I repeated that mantra to myself many afternoons when my boys were small. Now they’re…
A nice little piece from Time Magazine. The author of the article, Maia Szalavitz, is a neuroscience journalist for TIME.com…
It’s been well established that social isolation is a serious health risk, particularly for seniors. A 2010 study showed that…
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When viewed through the perspective offered by an anthropological lens, “care of elderly people” is an extraordinary phenomenon…
A forager honeybee collecting nectar. Credit: Jon…
Guest Blog by Leonard Mlodinow* Belonging to a group is good for your health. Courtesy of joncandy via Flickr. One advantage of…
A study of social networks in rock hyraxes has tweaked a conventional wisdom of the Facebook age: that a large network leads to…
I'd like to begin The Relationship Scientist column with a little self-disclosure: I do lots of t...
The slogan for ScienceOfRelationships.com is "Because the important things in life deserve data." Recent research by Dr. Holt-Lun…
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: What do we mean when we say a public figure has integrity? Ageing…
These findings indicate that the influence of social relationships on the risk of death are comparable with well-established…
[Henri Matisse, Dance II, Late Summer 1909] Research has shown that social support networks are essential to our overall mood…
Tiempos vacacionales (en el hemisferio norte, of course). Por tanto, de poca intensidad bloguera. Todos merecemos un descanso y…
There is a new study out which suggests that lack of good social relationships can actually be as detrimental to your health (mea…
Wow, just wow. I just finished reading a new paper published in PLOS Medicine (Lunstad et al 2010), on the association between…