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125 relations: Acupuncture, Adolescence, Age UK, Alcoholism, American Sociological Review, Anecdotal evidence, Anger, Animal-assisted therapy, Anti-social behaviour, Antidepressant, Art, Attention, Autophobia, Émile Durkheim, Blood pressure, Breakup, Cardiovascular disease, Cat, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Child, Childhood, Cholesterol, Chronic condition, Cognition, Communication, Community, Confidant, Correlation and dependence, Cortisol, Creativity, Depression (mood), Developed country, Dieting, Divorce, DNA, Dog, Dysthymia, Eleanor Rigby, Electroconvulsive therapy, Emily Dickinson, Emotion, Exercise, Existentialism, Framingham Heart Study, Friendship, Genetics, Grief, Group psychotherapy, Guinea pig, Health care, ..., Herbalism, Homesickness, Hostility, Human, Human condition, Hypertension, Hypnosis, Identity (social science), Individualism, Infant, Interleukin 6, Internet, Interpersonal communication, Interpersonal relationship, Intimate relationship, Isabella di Morra, Jean-Paul Sartre, John T. Cacioppo, Juvenile delinquency, Learning, Loner, Love, Major depressive disorder, Marriage, Meaning of life, Media consumption, Memory, Musician, Natural killer cell, Nostalgia, Old age, Pet, Philosopher, Pit of despair, Poet, Population density, Postpartum depression, Psychological pain, Psychology, Psychology Today, Rabbit, Religion, Religiosity, Research, Resentment, Rite of passage, Schizoid personality disorder, Self-destructive behavior, Shyness, Sleep, Social, Social alienation, Social anxiety, Social anxiety disorder, Social capital, Social group, Social isolation, Social phenomenon, Solitude, Spouse, Stimulation, Stroke, Suicide, The Guardian, Therapy, Time, Transcription (biology), Triglyceride, Twin study, United States, Universe, University of Chicago, White blood cell, Will (philosophy), William Patrick (author). Expand index (75 more) »
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine in which thin needles are inserted into the body.
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Adolescence
AdolescenceMacmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd.
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Age UK
Age UK is a registered charity in the United Kingdom, formed on 25 February 2009, and launched on 1 April 2009, which combines the operations of the previously separate charities Age Concern and Help the Aged to form the UK's largest charity for older people.
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Alcoholism
Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.
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American Sociological Review
The American Sociological Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology.
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Anecdotal evidence
Anecdotal evidence is evidence from anecdotes, i.e., evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony.
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Anger
Anger or wrath is an intense negative emotion.
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Animal-assisted therapy
Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is a type of therapy that involves animals as a form of treatment.
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Anti-social behaviour
Anti-social behaviours are actions that harm or lack consideration for the well-being of others.
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Antidepressant
Antidepressants are drugs used for the treatment of major depressive disorder and other conditions, including dysthymia, anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, eating disorders, chronic pain, neuropathic pain and, in some cases, dysmenorrhoea, snoring, migraine, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addiction, dependence, and sleep disorders.
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Art
Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
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Attention
Attention, also referred to as enthrallment, is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether deemed subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information.
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Autophobia
Autophobia, also called monophobia, isolophobia, or eremophobia, is the specific phobia of isolation; a morbid fear of being egotistical, or a dread of being alone or isolated.
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Émile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheim (or; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist.
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Blood pressure
Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels.
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Breakup
A relationship breakup, often referred to simply as a breakup, is the termination of an intimate relationship by any means other than death.
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Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.
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Cat
The domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading national public health institute of the United States.
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Child
Biologically, a child (plural: children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty.
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Childhood
Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence.
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Cholesterol
Cholesterol (from the Ancient Greek chole- (bile) and stereos (solid), followed by the chemical suffix -ol for an alcohol) is an organic molecule.
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Chronic condition
A chronic condition is a human health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time.
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Cognition
Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
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Communication
Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
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Community
A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.
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Confidant
The confidant (or; feminine: confidante, same pronunciation) is a character in a story whom a protagonist confides in and trusts.
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Correlation and dependence
In statistics, dependence or association is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data.
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Cortisol
Cortisol is a steroid hormone, in the glucocorticoid class of hormones.
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Creativity
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.
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Depression (mood)
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.
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Developed country
A developed country, industrialized country, more developed country, or "more economically developed country" (MEDC), is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Dieting
Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated and supervised fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases, such as diabetes.
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Divorce
Divorce, also known as dissolution of marriage, is the termination of a marriage or marital union, the canceling or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.
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Dog
The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris when considered a subspecies of the gray wolf or Canis familiaris when considered a distinct species) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore.
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Dysthymia
Dysthymia, now known as persistent depressive disorder (PDD), is a mood disorder consisting of the same cognitive and physical problems as depression, with less severe but longer-lasting symptoms.
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Eleanor Rigby
"Eleanor Rigby" is a song by the Beatles, released on the 1966 album Revolver and as a 45 rpm single.
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Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, and often referred to as shock treatment, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in patients to provide relief from mental disorders.
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.
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Emotion
Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.
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Exercise
Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.
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Existentialism
Existentialism is a tradition of philosophical inquiry associated mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed.
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Framingham Heart Study
The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study on residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts.
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Friendship
Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people.
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Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.
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Grief
Grief is a multifaceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.
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Group psychotherapy
Group psychotherapy or group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group.
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Guinea pig
The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as cavy or domestic cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia.
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Health care
Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.
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Herbalism
Herbalism (also herbal medicine or phytotherapy) is the study of botany and use of plants intended for medicinal purposes or for supplementing a diet.
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Homesickness
Homesickness is the distress caused by being away from home.
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Hostility
Hostility is seen as form of emotionally charged aggressive behavior.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Human condition
The human condition is "the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality".
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Hypertension
Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.
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Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.
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Identity (social science)
In psychology, identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity) or group (particular social category or social group).
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Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.
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Infant
An infant (from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless") is the more formal or specialised synonym for "baby", the very young offspring of a human.
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Interleukin 6
Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is an interleukin that acts as both a pro-inflammatory cytokine and an anti-inflammatory myokine.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Interpersonal communication
Interpersonal communication is an exchange of information between two or more people.
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Interpersonal relationship
An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.
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Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy.
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Isabella di Morra
Isabella di Morra (ca. 1520–1545/1546) was an Italian poet of the Renaissance.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
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John T. Cacioppo
John Terrence Cacioppo (12 June 1951 – 5 March 2018) was the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
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Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile delinquency, also known as "juvenile offending", is participation in illegal behavior by minors (juveniles, i.e. individuals younger than the statutory age of majority).
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Learning
Learning is the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences.
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Loner
A loner is a person who avoids or does not actively seek human interaction.
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Love
Love encompasses a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, ranging from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.
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Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).
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Meaning of life
The meaning of life, or the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general.
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Media consumption
Media consumption or media diet is the sum of information and entertainment media taken in by an individual or group.
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Memory
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
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Musician
A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.
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Natural killer cell
Natural killer cells or NK cells are a type of cytotoxic lymphocyte critical to the innate immune system.
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
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Old age
Old age refers to ages nearing or surpassing the life expectancy of human beings, and is thus the end of the human life cycle.
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Pet
A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company, protection, or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or laboratory animal.
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Philosopher
A philosopher is someone who practices philosophy, which involves rational inquiry into areas that are outside either theology or science.
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Pit of despair
The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s.
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Poet
A poet is a person who creates poetry.
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Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
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Postpartum depression
Postpartum depression (PPD), also called postnatal depression, is a type of mood disorder associated with childbirth, which can affect both sexes.
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Psychological pain
Psychological pain, mental pain, or emotional pain is an unpleasant feeling (a suffering) of a psychological, non-physical origin.
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Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
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Psychology Today
Psychology Today is a magazine published every two months in the United States since 1967.
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Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).
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Religion
Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
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Religiosity
Religiosity is difficult to define, but different scholars have seen this concept as broadly about religious orientations and involvement.
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Research
Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.
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Resentment
Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a mixture of disappointment, anger and fear.
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Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ceremony of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.
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Schizoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder (often abbreviated as SPD or SzPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment, and apathy.
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Self-destructive behavior
Self-destructive behavior is any behavior that is harmful or potentially harmful towards the person who engages in the behavior.
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Shyness
Shyness (also called diffidence) is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is around other people.
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Sleep
Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.
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Social
Living organisms including humans are social when they live collectively in interacting populations, whether they are aware of it, and whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.
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Social alienation
Social alienation is "a condition in social relationships reflected by a low degree of integration or common values and a high degree of distance or isolation between individuals, or between an individual and a group of people in a community or work environment".
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Social anxiety
Social anxiety can be defined as nervousness in social situations.
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Social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by a significant amount of fear in one or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.
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Social capital
Social capital is a form of economic and cultural capital in which social networks are central; transactions are marked by reciprocity, trust, and cooperation; and market agents produce goods and services not mainly for themselves, but for a common good.
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Social group
In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
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Social isolation
Social isolation is a state of complete or near-complete lack of contact between an individual and society.
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Social phenomenon
Social phenomena include all behavior that influences or is influenced by organisms sufficiently alive to respond to one another.
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Solitude
Solitude is a state of seclusion or isolation, i.e., lack of contact with people.
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Spouse
A spouse is a life partner in a marriage, civil union, or common-law marriage.
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Stimulation
Stimulation is the encouragement of development or the cause of activity generally.
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Stroke
A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Therapy
Therapy (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis.
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Time
Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
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Transcription (biology)
Transcription is the first step of gene expression, in which a particular segment of DNA is copied into RNA (especially mRNA) by the enzyme RNA polymerase.
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Triglyceride
A triglyceride (TG, triacylglycerol, TAG, or triacylglyceride) is an ester derived from glycerol and three fatty acids (from tri- and glyceride).
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Twin study
Twin studies are studies conducted on identical or fraternal twins.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Universe
The Universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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White blood cell
White blood cells (WBCs), also called leukocytes or leucocytes, are the cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders.
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Will (philosophy)
Will, generally, is that faculty of the mind which selects, at the moment of decision, the strongest desire from among the various desires present.
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William Patrick (author)
William Patrick is an editor, book doctor, and ghost-writer, and the co-author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness
