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Research conducted over more than a decade indicates that loneliness increases self-centeredness and, to a lesser extent, self-centeredness also increases loneliness.
[...] The researchers wrote that "targeting self-centeredness as part of an intervention to lessen loneliness may help break a positive feedback loop that maintains or worsens loneliness over time." Their study is the first to test a prediction from the Cacioppos' evolutionary theory that loneliness increases self-centeredness. Such research is important because, as many studies have shown, lonely people are more susceptible to a variety of physical and mental health problems as well as higher mortality rates than their non-lonely counterparts.
[...] Early psychological research treated loneliness as an anomalous or temporary feeling of distress that had no redeeming value or adaptive purpose. "None of that could be further from the truth," Stephanie Cacioppo said.
[...] "Physical pain is an aversive signal that alerts us of potential tissue damange [sic] and motivates us to take care of our physical body," the UChicago researchers wrote. Loneliness, meanwhile, is part of a warning system that motivates people to repair or replace their deficient social relationships.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by MostCynical on Wednesday June 14 2017, @09:34AM (5 children)
Good thing this doesn't apply to anyone posting to this site, then!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Wednesday June 14 2017, @10:02AM (4 children)
This place? With people usually prone to good argument and know the discipline of critical thinking even if they don't use it sometimes and hit the preview button? Shit man, check out twitter. I came crawling back to Soylent when I made the error of using it as anything but a trivial aggregator after deleting my account with gusto.
I've just assumed this will become an increasingly severe problem until we develop VR that allows convincing face to face interaction. Because real life interaction is already a lost art. Digital communicating is just going to get more prevalent and necessary for work efficiency.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @11:08AM (1 child)
How does one "delete an account with gusto"
Take him to a bar, get him drunk, and then take advantage of his intoxicated state to stand you for long enough to sit with you at a computer to delete your account in tandom?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @01:06PM
Be sure to wear a condem when you do.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday June 14 2017, @11:12AM (1 child)
It's a shame that the social force of etiquette doesn't seem to work online.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @01:29PM
Etiquette is not a social force, it's a set of rules you are supposed to follow. The social force are the looks you get from others as soon as you violate those rules. Only larger violations give rise to more direct reactions.
Obviously this first level of reaction, the looks you get, is missing in online interactions.