Scientists are rethinking what loneliness does to the body

Scientists are rethinking what loneliness does to the body

Two people can sit at the same dinner table, share the same number of conversations in a week, and still leave with entirely different feelings about their social lives. One feels connected. The other feels alone. That gap, subtle and easy to miss, may carry real consequences. Researchers at Cornell University have been examining what happens when a person’s social reality does not match their emotional experience. Their work, spread across two …