Loneliness : human nature and the need for social connection /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Lonely in a social world
- 2. Variation, regulation, and an elastic leash
- 3. Losing control
- 4. Selfish genes, social animals
- 5. The universal and the particular
- 6. The wear and tear of loneliness
- 7. Sympathetic threads
- 8. An indissociable organism
- 9. Knowing thyself, among others
- 10. Conflicted by nature
- 11. Conflicts in nature
- 12. Three adaptations
- 13. Getting it right
- 14. The power of social connection.