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A recent study has found that social chatbots, an interactive form of artificial intelligence (AI), are effective in ...

Research shows that AI companions can help lonely individuals, at least in the short term. A 2022 study found that ...

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Older adults who didn’t have enough savings to cover emergency expenses during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic faced another surprising problem: higher levels of loneliness.

A team of Japanese researchers found that social loneliness decreases the levels of oxytocin, known as the "happy" or "love" hormone, in mice, resulting in lipid metabolism disorders in the liver ...

Seeing other people’s posts on social media doesn’t bother her, but if it did, she said social media could also have negative effects on loneliness. Several studies have found social media can help ...

The team investigated how social media use impacts loneliness over time and examined the hidden emotional costs of social media. The eye-opening research by Baylor University, published in the journal ...

An elderly widow wearing war medals. Picture: File The soldier described how reaching the operation’s conclusion was an “emotional time”, with the Ukrainians sending the Australians updates ...