Studies show that choosing ‘me time’ is not a recipe for loneliness but can boost your creativity and emotional well-being. FotoDuets/iStock via Getty Images Plus Over the past few years, experts have ...

A comprehensive new review published in the Journal of Management synthesizes decades of research to understand the epidemic ...

BUENOS AIRES — Is being alone the same as feeling lonely? Hardly, for the latter is a sense of isolation and the need for more encounters or relations. Yet even in company you can feel alone, which is ...

Is anyone else feeling lonely right now? It’s a question I ask myself, sitting on my bed after a long day of classes, homework and walking around campus by myself. I have friends I see regularly, but ...

A new Chinese app, controversially named 'Are you dead?', is gaining immense popularity by addressing widespread loneliness. Users must check in daily; failure to do so alerts emergency contacts. This ...

James Baldwin has a quote about the greatness of art that describes the experience of feeling alone in your depression and then realizing — through reading — that Dostoevsky felt that same depression.

Over the past few years, experts have been sounding the alarm over how much time Americans spend alone. These trends coincided with the surgeon general's 2023 declaration of a loneliness epidemic, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Virginia Thomas, Middlebury (THE CONVERSATION) Over the past few years, experts have ...