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The lethality of loneliness: John Cacioppo at TEDxDesMoines
Loneliness isn't a flaw. It's a signal, like hunger.
Who it's for
Cacioppo, the founder of loneliness research in social neuroscience, explains loneliness as an evolved alarm that motivates reconnection, and describes how chronic loneliness shifts the brain into hypervigilance for social threat.
Isolated, ashamed of being lonely, suspicious of others→Understood and less ashamed, with an idea of how to reconnect
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What it is
Social neuroscientist John Cacioppo's TEDxDesMoines talk presents loneliness as an aversive signal, like hunger, thirst or pain, that warns of a threat to our social connections.
Where to find it
Free on YouTube.
Before you start
Heads up: Discussion of mortality and health risks.
Age: Not rated (suggested 13+)
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state,William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
