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Outside reading: ‘All the lonely people’

Researchers say loneliness isn’t just a personal problem – mass loneliness is a threat to public health, the Los Angeles Times reports. Research published in the latest issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology asked these questions about loneliness: “Who feels it? And how are lonely people connected to the rest of us?” The authors found “like a virus, loneliness is contagious.” Read the article on LATimes.com.

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