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Spread It Around -- Loneliness May Be Contagious

"Wouldn't it be fine bein' lonely together?" -- Barry Manilow It's not often that science comes in to justify the truth of old Barry Manilow songs, but a new joint study from the University of Chicago, Harvard and the University of California-San Diego suggests that we really do get lonelier together. The study, published in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, reports that loneliness is contagious not only to friends, but to friends of friends. While people's friends and acquaintances were susceptible to feeling increased loneliness, though, family members ...

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