The standard popular framing treats loneliness as a problem of insufficient social contact. The lonely person, in this picture, lives alone, has few friends, and would feel better with more company. The framing is intuitively appealing. It is also, on the strongest reading of fifty years of peer-reviewed evidence, incomplete. The peer-reviewed literature distinguishes two [...] The post You can have a loving family, a close partner, and a dense network of friends, and still be measurably, scientifically lonely. The phenomenon is called emotional loneliness, and it was first described in 1973 by the American sociologist Robert Weiss, who showed that the absence of close attachment relationships cannot be compensated for by the presence of social ones appeared first on Space Daily .
You can have a loving family, a close partner, and a dense network of friends, and still be measurably, scientifically lonely. The phenomenon is called emotional loneliness, and it was first described in 1973 by the American sociologist Robert Weiss, who showed that the absence of close attachment relationships cannot be compensated for by the presence of social ones
