by Angelique Kasmara | Dec 18, 2025 | Loneliness, News Media
Students blame reliance on phones plus pressure of accommodation costs for lack of social life. More than two-thirds of students in UK university halls feel lonely or isolated, blaming accommodation costs and over-reliance on phones for limiting their social life....
by Angelique Kasmara | Nov 27, 2025 | Loneliness
If you aren’t getting the quality time or intimacy you need, try these connection experiments to shake up interactions. The Guardian gets tips from Don Martin, content creator and host of podcast Head on Fire who defines loneliness as simply the gap between the...
by Angelique Kasmara | Nov 26, 2025 | Loneliness
Young adults face a rising tide of mental illness and loneliness. We propose that an overlooked barrier for social connection is how people perceive each other’s empathy. Here, our longitudinal study of an undergraduate student community (N=5,192) reveals that...
by Angelique Kasmara | Nov 18, 2025 | Loneliness
A new study explores the impact of childhood loneliness and its correlation with later-life cognitive decline and dementia. Findings suggest that childhood loneliness may serve as an independent risk factor for later-life cognitive decline and dementia, highlighting...
by Angelique Kasmara | Oct 30, 2025 | Loneliness, News Media
In a January 2025 Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN), one in four adults (25%) in Great Britain reported feeling lonely “often or always” or “some of the time” (7% often or always; 18% some of the time). Younger adults consistently report...
by Angelique Kasmara | Oct 23, 2025 | Loneliness, News Media
One of the greatest acts of love is simply bearing witness to the vicissitudes of ageing, writes Australian oncologist Ranjana Srivastava. Read the full story in The Guardian.
