Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick, . . Norton, $25.95 (317pp) ISBN 978-0-393-06170-3
Eleanor Rigby might have been in worse shape than the Beatles imagined: not only lonely but angry, depressed and in ill health. University of Chicago research psychologist Cacioppo shows in studies that loneliness can be harmful to our overall well-being. Loneliness, he says, impairs the ability to feel trust and affection, and people who lack emotional intimacy are less able to exercise good judgment in socially ambiguous situations; this makes them more vulnerable to bullying as children and exploitation by “unscrupulous salespeople” in old age. But Cacioppo and Patrick (editor of the
Reviewed on: 06/02/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
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