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University of Chicago social neuroscientist John T. Cacioppo unveils his pioneering research on the startling effects of loneliness: a sense of isolation or social rejection disrupts not only our thinking abilities and will power but also our immune systems, and can be as damaging as obesity or smoking. A blend of biological and social science, this book demonstrates that, as individuals and as a society, we have everything to gain, and everything to lose, in how well or how poorly we manage our need for social bonds.



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Part 1. The Lonely Heart -- Chapter 1. Lonely in a Social World -- Chapter 2. Variation, Regulation, and an Elastic Leash -- Chapter 3. Losing Control -- Chapter 4. Selfish Genes, Social Animals -- Chapter 5. The Universal and the Particular -- Chapter 6. The Wear and Tear of Loneliness -- Part 2. From Selfish Genes to Social Beings -- Chapter 7. Sympathetic Threads -- Chapter 8. An Indissociable Organism -- Chapter 9. Knowing Thyself, among Others -- Chapter 10. Conflicted by Nature -- Chapter 11. Conflicts in Nature -- Part 3. Finding Meaning in Connection -- Chapter 12. Three Adaptations -- Chapter 13. Getting It Right -- Chapter 14. The Power of Social Connection -- Notes -- Index.