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Beat loneliness – to avoid a stroke: Why isolation is as bad for you as smoking
Daily Mail: Loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking. It seems astonishing, I know, but scientific research suggests that social isolation, in the long term, is as damaging as a 15-a-day cigarette habit
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A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics
The New York Times: A couple of years ago, as his fellow psychologists debated whether narcissism was increasing, Nathan DeWall heard Rivers Cuomo singing to a familiar 19th-century melody. Mr. Cuomo, the lead singer and
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Why comfort food can actually be good for your emotional health
Yahoo! News Canada: When Drew Barrymore goes through a bad breakup, there are two words that always make her feel better: Kraft Dinner. “[I] head straight for the carbs. Macaroni and cheese. Kraft. Deluxe. The
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Chicken Soup Really is Good for the Soul
Winter is just about over, but warm and soothing comfort foods are good all year. Why does comfort food make us feel so much better when we’re down? Research in an upcoming issue of Psychological
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Comfort Food: A Yummy Weapon Against Loneliness
Live Science: Be it macaroni and cheese, chicken soup, kim chi or even the odd salad, comfort foods really do comfort us by fighting feelings of loneliness, new research shows. “The idea is that throughout
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Chicken Soup For the Soul: Comfort Food Fights Loneliness
U.S. News & World Report: Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, meatloaf…they may be bad for your arteries, but according to an upcoming study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, they’re
