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Loneliness is a major cause of poor health and disability in old age, and experts have long thought that providing companions to seniors can help ease their pain and improve their health. But Elizabeth Tillinghast, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, explains why this may not be enough. Given much adult loneliness is caused by childhood neglect, “some people,’ she writes, "may cling to social isolation because isolation is what most closely reflects their emotional experience as children.”
After gut-wrenching photographs of chemical-attack victims emerged from Syria earlier this month, people around the world recoiled. President Trump even claimed the images moved him to intervene militarily. University of Oregon professors Nicole Smith Dahmen and Paul Slovic explore the power – and limitations – of images when it comes to stirring people from complacency to action..
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Loneliness in adults is often a result of loneliness in childhood.
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Elizabeth Tillinghast, Columbia University Medical Center
Loneliness is a major cause of health problems, and many programs have aimed to alleviate it among the elderly. But it might be wise to treat loneliness at its roots, which for many is in childhood.
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Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon; Paul Slovic, University of Oregon
Will recent photos of chemical attack victims in Syria provoke a short-term emotional reaction or a sustained humanitarian campaign?
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Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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