What’s new: A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience indicates that feelings of loneliness are directly tied to self-perception.
Study participants completed a self-assessment about how intimately connected they felt to themselves, five close people in their lives, five acquaintances, and five well-known celebrities.
Researchers compared the five criteria, known as the self-other representation, and found that lower reported self-image correlated to relative emotional distance from others.
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