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# How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
- URL: https://werd.io/how-loneliness-reshapes-the-brain/
- Published: 2023-03-23T14:54:42.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-23T14:54:42.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:21

“The problem with loneliness seems to be that it biases our thinking. In behavioral studies, lonely people picked up on negative social signals, such as images of rejection, within 120 milliseconds — twice as quickly as people with satisfying relationships and in less than half the time it takes to blink. Lonely people also preferred to stand farther away from strangers, trusted others less and disliked physical touch.” [#Health](https://werd.io/tag/Health)

\[[Link](https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-loneliness-reshapes-the-brain-20230228/)\]