- Loneliness evolved as a necessary mental state that signals a need to repair or improve social health by changing behavior, similar to how feeling hunger signals behavior to seek food. Like pain which is a signal to avoid damage, loneliness is a signal to avoid death before mating. https://cognitiontoday.com/the-loneliness-loop-how-to-break-it-and-make-friends/ 5 comments anthropology
- Loneliness makes us feel unsafe making us hypervigilant and interpret social events with bias. We then become hostile and defensively withdraw in a way that reinforces our loneliness. Social and physical warmth helps counter it. https://cognitiontoday.com/the-loneliness-loop-how-to-break-it-and-make-friends/ 4 comments cogsci
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