A public opinion researcher explains why this group’s declining faith goes beyond partisanship and reflects a fundamental question about its sense of belonging.
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The effects on parents as they adjust can be hugely under-estimated.
R U OK? Day is Australia’s most recognisable mental health campaign. A study using nine years of data looked at how it affected wellbeing and access to care.
People don’t just love their dogs; Many owners seem to love pets more than people. It’s a symptom of wider social problems, a philosopher argues – one that’s hurting people and pets alike.
Winter shifts people indoors and inward. While this may reduce incidental social contact, connection can be maintained through deliberate routines and low-threshold forms of engagement.
Healthy eating is strongly influenced by social connections and different settings. But aging often brings losses to social connections, which could put healthy eating at risk.
Employees often gravitate toward co-workers their own age, but relationships with colleagues at other stages of life have personal and professional benefits.
The more Americans isolate themselves from people in the other political party, the more stereotypes take over. In turn, that pushes people to isolate even more.
New public health guidelines offer research-backed steps for individuals and communities to strengthen social bonds, combat loneliness and build healthier lives.
Not having ambassadors representing its interests a year after recalling the previous ones means Nigeria is retreating from the world.
School mass shooters often display warning signs well before they open fire. How can schools and police take preventive action to save lives?
Julian Assange spent years in some form of isolation. Just how damaging can that be for your mental and physical health?
Fran (Daisy Ridley) has a complex and creative inner world that she escapes into in order to feel real.
Before we draw conclusions about the implications of social isolation, we should check our expectations of how, when and why neighbouring does or does not happen.
While the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant progress in expanding rural home internet access, these gains are proving temporary as resources dwindle.
I believe that young people today face unprecedented pressures to excel academically, professionally and socially.
Young people were experiencing increasing rates of loneliness well before the pandemic shut things down.
Autistic people are not only more likely to feel lonely but are also more likely to experience it more acutely than non-autistic people according to new research.
Time’s elasticity is part of how we process it.
A new study reveals how the geography of global climates influences the rich patterns of species diversity in an ever-changing world.
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