Summary of John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick's Loneliness
Summary of John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick's Loneliness

Author: Everest Media,

Publisher: Everest Media LLC

Published: 2022-03-13T22:59:00Z

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1669353486

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I have been divorced for years, and I still feel lonely. I have learned the difference between being alone and being lonely. In a crowd, at work, and even in a family setting, I always feel lonely. #2 Katie Bishop, after working in software for six months, was fifteen pounds heavier and miserable. She was not just dealing with the heartache that fuels pop songs and Miss Lonelyhearts columns, but a serious problem that began with a genetic predisposition and a high sensitivity to feeling the absence of connection. #3 Loneliness is a feeling of isolation, and it is extremely common. It is not just a matter of being alone, but the subjective experience of being alone. It can be brief and superficial, or it can be severe and chronic. #4 To better understand your loneliness, answer these questions: How often do you feel there is no one you can turn to. How often do you feel alone. How often do you feel part of a group of friends. How often do you feel that you have a lot in common with others.

Summary of John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick's Loneliness
Summary of John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick's Loneliness

Author: Milkyway Media

Publisher: Milkyway Media

Published: 2022-04-20

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I have been divorced for years, and I still feel lonely. I have learned the difference between being alone and being lonely. In a crowd, at work, and even in a family setting, I always feel lonely. #2 Katie Bishop, after working in software for six months, was fifteen pounds heavier and miserable. She was not just dealing with the heartache that fuels pop songs and Miss Lonelyhearts columns, but a serious problem that began with a genetic predisposition and a high sensitivity to feeling the absence of connection. #3 Loneliness is a feeling of isolation, and it is extremely common. It is not just a matter of being alone, but the subjective experience of being alone. It can be brief and superficial, or it can be severe and chronic. #4 To better understand your loneliness, answer these questions: How often do you feel there is no one you can turn to. How often do you feel alone. How often do you feel part of a group of friends. How often do you feel that you have a lot in common with others.

Loneliness
Loneliness

Author: John T Cacioppo

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2009-07-28

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0393335283

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A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for chronic loneliness--which he defines an unrecognized syndrome--and brings it out of the shadow of its cousin, depression. 12 illustrations.

The Lonely American
The Lonely American

Author: Jacqueline Olds, MD

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2009-02-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0807095966

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In today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out of four Americans talked to no one about something of importance to them during the last six months. Another remarkable fact emerged from the 2000 U.S. Census: more people are living alone today than at any point in the country's history—fully 25 percent of households consist of one person only. In this crucial look at one of America's few remaining taboo subjects—loneliness—Drs. Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz set out to understand the cultural imperatives, psychological dynamics, and physical mechanisms underlying social isolation. In The Lonely American, cutting-edge research on the physiological and cognitive effects of social exclusion and emerging work in the neurobiology of attachment uncover startling, sobering ripple effects of loneliness in areas as varied as physical health, children's emotional problems, substance abuse, and even global warming. Surprising new studies tell a grim truth about social isolation: being disconnected diminishes happiness, health, and longevity; increases aggression; and correlates with increasing rates of violent crime. Loneliness doesn't apply simply to single people, either—today's busy parents "cocoon" themselves by devoting most of their non-work hours to children, leaving little time for friends, and other forms of social contact, and unhealthily relying on the marriage to fulfill all social needs. As a core population of socially isolated individuals and families continues to balloon in size, it is more important than ever to understand the effects of a culture that idealizes busyness and self-reliance. It's time to bring loneliness—a very real and little-discussed social epidemic with frightening consequences-out into the open, and find a way to navigate the tension between freedom and connection in our lives.

Loneliness as a Way of Life
Loneliness as a Way of Life

Author: Thomas Dumm

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-05-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 067403113X

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“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds. A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in Shakespeare’s King Lear points to the most basic dynamic of modern loneliness—how it is a response to the problem of the “missing mother.” Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experience—Being, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural texts—Moby-Dick, Death of a Salesman, the film Paris, Texas, Emerson’s “Experience,” to name a few—with his own experiences of loneliness, as a son, as a father, and as a grieving husband and widower. Written with deceptive simplicity, Loneliness as a Way of Life is something rare—an intellectual study that is passionately personal. It challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way. To fail to do so, this book reveals, will only intensify the power that it holds over us.

Social Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience

Author: John T. Cacioppo

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0262033356

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Social neuroscience uses the methodologies and tools developed to measure mental and brain function to study social cognition, emotion, and behavior. In this collection, John Cacioppo, Penny Visser, and Cynthia Pickett have brought together contributions from psychologists, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, and neurologists that focus on the neurobiological underpinnings of social information processing, particularly the mechanisms underlying "people thinking about thinking people." In these studies, such methods as functional brain imaging, studies of brain lesion patients, comparative analyses, and developmental data are brought to bear on social thinking and feeling systems -- the ways in which human beings influence and are influenced by other humans. The broad range of disciplines represented by the contributors confirms that among the strengths of social neuroscience are its interdisciplinary approach and the use of multiple methods that bridge disciplines and levels of analysis. Social neuroscience has yielded insights into such aspects of social behavior as social regulation, social rejection, impression formation, self-awareness, and attitudes regarding social groups. The studies in Social Neuroscienceexamine topics including the neural substrates of self-awareness and social cognition, theory of mind, cortical mechanisms of language processing, stereotyping, prejudice and race, and the special quality of social cognition.

Emotional Contagion
Emotional Contagion

Author: Elaine Hatfield

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780521449489

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A study of the phenomenon of emotion contagion, or the communication of mood to others.

A Philosophy of Loneliness
A Philosophy of Loneliness

Author: Lars Svendsen

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2017-03-15

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1780237936

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For many of us it is the ultimate fear: to die alone. Loneliness is a difficult subject to address because it has such negative connotations in our intensely social world. But the truth is that wherever there are people, there is loneliness. You can be lonely sitting in the quiet of your home, in the still of an afternoon park, or even when surrounded by throngs of people on a busy street. One need only turn on the radio to hear a crooner telling us just how lonesome we can be. In this groundbreaking book, philosopher Lars Svendsen confronts loneliness head on, investigating both the negative and positive sides of this most human of emotions. Drawing on the latest research in philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, A Philosophy of Loneliness explores the different kinds of loneliness and examines the psychological and social characteristics that dispose people to them. Svendsen looks at the importance of friendship and love, and he examines how loneliness can impact our quality of life and affect our physical and mental health. In a provocative move, he also argues that the main problem in our modern society is not that we have too much loneliness but rather too little solitude, and he looks to those moments when our loneliness can actually tell us profound things about ourselves and our place in the world. The result is a fascinating book about a complex and deeply meaningful part of our very being.

Single
Single

Author: Michael Cobb

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2012-07-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0814772560

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A radical defense of a solitary life What single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist outside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly discouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to the social. Singles might just be the single most reviled sexual minorities today. Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the couple form, and how that supremacy blocks our understanding of the single. Michael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness as it traverses an eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and popular culture objects from Plato, Freud, Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Morrissey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Hannah Arendt to the Bible, Sex and the City, Bridget Jones' Diary, Beyoncé's “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” and HBO's Big Love. Within these flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, strange moments in film and video, paintings made in the desert, bits of song, and memoirs of hiking in national parks, Cobb offers an inspired, eloquent rumination on the single, which is guaranteed to spark conversation and consideration.

A Biography of Loneliness
A Biography of Loneliness

Author: Fay Bound Alberti

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-09-12

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0192539337

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'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist. As Alberti shows, the birth of loneliness is linked to the development of modernity: the all-encompassing ideology of the individual that has emerged in the mind and physical sciences, in economic structures, in philosophy and politics. While it has a biography of its own, loneliness impacts on people differently, according to their gender, ethnicity, religion, outlook, and socio-economic position. It is, Alberti argues, not a single state but an 'emotion cluster', composed of a wide variety of responses that include fear, anger, resentment and sorrow. In spite of this, loneliness is not always negative. And it is physical as well as psychological: loneliness is a product of the body as much as the mind. Looking at informative case studies such as Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, A Biography of Loneliness charts the emergence of loneliness as a modern emotional state. From social media addiction to widowhood, from homelessness to the oldest old, from mall hauls to massages, loneliness appears in all aspects of 21st-century life. Yet we cannot address its meanings, let alone formulate a cure, without attention to its complex, protean history.