Published on: 2025-05-26 05:22:33
America’s purported loneliness epidemic, with its fuzzy definitions and clashing claims, is the type of gnarly challenge that’s guaranteed to both attract and destroy data journalists. So we appreciated the simplicity of D.C. reader Omika Suryawanshi’s question on the subject: How many American adults feel lonely? We didn’t have a great answer back in 2022 when Suryawanshi posed this question. But last month, we were rummaging around in the Census Household Pulse survey after the Trump administr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 17:39:51
OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab last week released two new studies aimed at exploring the effect of AI chatbots on loneliness. The results are complicated, but they also line up with what we now know about social media: Chatbots can make people lonely, but the people who reported feeling more alone after heavy use of an AI tended to feel pretty alone before they started. To do the studies, OpenAI turned over almost 40 million interactions its users had with ChatGPT to researchers at MIT. In the fi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 15:00:00
Social scientist Kasley Killam has always been fascinated by the science of human connection. In college, for instance, she once decided to conduct a personal experiment and perform an act of kindness everyday for 108 days. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she researched solutions for loneliness. At Google’s health spinoff, Verily, her job was to bring people together to promote social health. “I first came across the term ‘social health’ during my research at Stanford, where I
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 23:25:00
With how connected smart devices have us, loneliness isn't something that comes to the front of our minds. However, a recent study published by the American Medical Association found that 29.2% of adults aged 50 to 80 said they felt isolated from others "some of the time" or "often" in 2024. This was out of the 2,051 to 2,576 respondents included in the survey. Loneliness was most common among people not working, those living alone and individuals with lower household incomes. For those who repo
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