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09/10/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

The price of convenience: Research links city living to lowered mental health

Recent mental health research shows that city living can negatively affect overall mental health. According to Psychology Today, city dwellers experience higher levels of anxiety and depression. It turns out that population density doesn’t equate to human connection and relationship. Without these true binding forces, city life disappoints. Lights and noises are all around, but it’s just filler; […]

05/06/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Loneliness and social isolation may be a greater public health hazard than obesity, researchers say

Men are social beings, so they suffer a lot when they’re shut off from human contact. A new study revealed more serious consequences. It showed that loneliness can cause premature death. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Brigham Young University brought this problem into sharper focus by presenting data from two meta-analyses. The first […]

04/21/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Connected but isolated: Experts say that more people just want to give birthday gifts online rather than seeing them in person

In recent years, the Internet has morphed into a platform where people can do just about anything. One of these, according to a recent study, is the act of gift-giving. More people are now engaging in online gift-giving, or the giving of gifts through social networks. This phenomenon has become so prevalent that the researchers […]

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