Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

By Jerome Kagan. 2009

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Subfields: General Health Professions, General Social Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality (2015, background): “Although many studies indicate that loneliness differs across marital status (Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008; Hughes et al., 2004; Victor & Bowling, 2012) and that marital status is significantly associated with mortality (Roelfs, Shor, Kalish, & Yogev, 2011), we did not include marital status as an…”
No Employee an Island: Workplace Loneliness and Job Performance (2018, background): “…loneliness at work is important given the myriad pernicious emotional, cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral outcomes that have been found as a result of being lonely (Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008; Hawkley & Cacioppo, 2010; Heinrich & Gullone, 2006; Masi, Chen, Hawkley, & Cacioppo, 2011).”
Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis (2011, background): “Moreover, people are more likely to experience a wide variety of health problems when lonely or isolated (see Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008).”
Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: a leverage points perspective (2020, background): “This benefit arises because humans are a social species, one that places an importance upon social connectedness with others as a direct result of our biology and evolutionary history (Caccioppo and Patrick 2008), with psychological connections with one another formed through similarity (Larkin et a”
Loneliness Matters: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Consequences and Mechanisms (2010, neutral): “A social cognitive approach to loneliness reduction outlined in a recent book [92] may encourage therapists to develop a treatment that focuses on the specific affective, cognitive, and behavioral propensities that afflict lonely individuals.”
Nurturing Nature: How Brain Development Is Inherently Social and Emotional, and What This Means for Education (2019, background): “…and trigger epigenetic effects, emotional well-being promotes health, brain development, and optimal learning, whereas chronic and excessive stress and loneliness are toxic to brain development (Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008; Lupien, McEwen, Gunnar, & Heim, 2009; Shonkoff, 2011; Zilkha & Kimchi, 2018).”
A Scientific Review of the Remarkable Benefits of Happiness for Successful and Healthy Living (2013, background): “In contrast, lonely individuals experience worse health (Cacioppo and Patrick, 2008).”
The Other As Shamer Scale-2: Development and validation of a short version of a measure of external shame. (2015, background): “…ostracism, increases the risk of concealment and fear of discovery, and cuts individuals from potential validating, supportive signals/relations that stimulate positive affect and neurophysiological systems such as oxytocin and parasympathetic regulation (Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008; Cozolino, 2007).”
Social connection enables dehumanization (2012, background): “Being socially connected to another individual or group increases self-esteem (Leary & Baumeister, 2000), happiness (Diener & Seligman, 2002), meaning (Heine, Proulx, & Vohs, 2006), and physical health (Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008).”
Feeling lonely at work: investigating the consequences of unsatisfactory workplace relationships (2012, background): “…that loneliness – defined as insufficient or unsatisfactory social relationships – can produce a variety of ill effects, ranging from anxiety to depression, mental disorder, heart failure and suicide (Leary 1990; Stravynski and Boyer 2001; Heinrich and Gullone 2006; Cacioppo and Patrick 2008).”
Unravelling the antecedents of loneliness in the workplace (2020, background): “However, because loneliness is often perceived as a shameful topic and is stigmatised, trivialised, or ignored (Cacioppo and Patrick, 2008; Holt-Lunstad, 2018), it is not something we often hear revealed at work.”
Executive Functions (2012, neutral): “…stressed (Arnsten 1998, Liston et al. 2009, Oaten & Cheng 2005), sad (Hirt et al. 2008, von Hecker & Meiser 2005), lonely (Baumeister et al. 2002, Cacioppo & Patrick 2008, Campbell et al. 2006, Tun et al. 2012), sleep deprived (Barnes et al. 2012, Huang et al. 2007), or not physically fit (Best…”
sCARF : a brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others (2009, background): “Neuroscientist John Cacioppo talks about the need for safe human contact being a primary driver, like the need for food (Cacioppo, 2008). in the absence of safe social interactions the body generates a threat response, also known as feeling lonely.”
Social isolation in Covid-19: The impact of loneliness (2020, background): “Loneliness is also one of the prime indicators of social well-being (Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008).”
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Risk Factors for Age-Related Disease (2009, positive): “29 33-35 Adverse psychosocial experiences such as social isolation could be particularly detrimental in the developing child, 36 and initial findings suggest that childhood social isolation may have enduring effects on the clustering of metabolic risk markers in adult life.”
Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box (2011, background): “People are wired to live and work in social groups (Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008; Goleman, 2006; Haidt, 2006).”
The Neuroendocrinology of Social Isolation (2014, background): “To the extent that human loneliness stems from a chronic sense of social threat and a diminished reward from social interactions (Cacioppo & Patrick 2008, Cacioppo et al. 2014), nonhuman primate models of repeated low-grade social threat may also help illuminate the neural and biological…”