Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

Author:   John T. Cacioppo ,  William Patrick ,  Dick Hill
Publisher:   Tantor Media, Inc
Edition:   Unabridged edition
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9781400138128


Publication Date:   05 August 2008
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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John T. Cacioppo's groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure, and analyzing immune function, he demonstrates the overpowering influence of social context-a factor so strong that it can alter DNA replication. He defines an unrecognized syndrome, chronic loneliness; brings it out of the shadow of its cousin, depression; and shows how this subjective sense of social isolation uniquely disrupts our perceptions, behavior, and physiology, becoming a trap that not only reinforces isolation but can also lead to early death. He gives the lie to the Hobbesian view of human nature as a war of all against all, and he shows how social cooperation is, in fact, humanity's defining characteristic. Most important, he shows how we can break the trap of isolation for our benefit both as individuals and as a society.

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Author:   John T. Cacioppo ,  William Patrick ,  Dick Hill
Publisher:   Tantor Media, Inc
Imprint:   Tantor Media, Inc
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.162kg
ISBN:  

9781400138128


ISBN 10:   1400138124
Publication Date:   05 August 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Top-notch science writing: stimulating and useful information conveyed in accessible prose. ---Kirkus Starred Review


Top-notch science writing: stimulating and useful information conveyed in accessible prose. ---Kirkus Starred Review


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John T. Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. William Patrick is the editor in chief of the Journal of Life Sciences. Reader of over 400 audiobooks, Dick Hill has won three coveted Audie awards and been nominated numerous times. He is also the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. AudioFile includes Dick on their prestigious list of Golden Voices.

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