Earlier this year, the Healthy Minds Monthly Poll from the American Psychiatric Association reported that 30 percent of adults felt lonely at least once a week over the past year. People can ...

OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab last week released two new studies aimed at exploring the effect of AI chatbots on loneliness. The results are complicated, but they also line up with what we now know ...

Then there’s less pressure to talk ... social skills and theirs were just as good as everyone else’s. So it’s not that people who feel lonely need to learn new social skills, but what ...