Wednesday, September 5, 2007

A glance at the current issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science: Alone and getting older

At any age, loneliness can reduce its sufferers' ability to take care of their health, deal with stress, and get better after setbacks, and researchers have known that lonely people become lonelier as they age. Less well understood, however, is the cumulative negative effect that a history...

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