Loneliness is a feeling where people experience a powerful surge of emptiness and solitude. Loneliness is more than the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Someone who is lonely may find it hard to form human contact.
One of the first recorded uses of the word "lonely" was in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Act IV Scene 1.
Using data from more than 8,000 people in twin studies and sibling studies, in colla...
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Loneliness is a feeling where people experience a powerful surge of emptiness and solitude. Loneliness is more than the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Someone who is lonely may find it hard to form human contact.
One of the first recorded uses of the word "lonely" was in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Act IV Scene 1.
Using data from more than 8,000 people in twin studies and sibling studies, in collaboration with the Netherlands Twin Register, John Cacioppo and colleagues found strong evidence that genetics accounts for about half of the differences in loneliness among people in the study. The researchers, whose study appears in Behavior Genetics, said it showed helping lonely people was not simply a matter of changing their environment. Loneliness has been linked to heart disease as well as emotional problems, such as anxiety, self-esteem problems and sociability. The researchers suggest that loneliness may stem from prehistoric times,...
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