Loneliness

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Cacioppo, John T./ Patrick, William , Patrick, William 저자(글)

W. W. Norton & Company · 2009년 08월 01일

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John T. Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor and the director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago. William Patrick, formerly the science editor at Harvard University Press, lives on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
This work defines an unrecognised syndrome - chronic loneliness - brings it out of the shadow of its cousin, depression, and shows how this subjective sense of social isolation disrupts our perceptions, behaviour and physiology, becomming a trap that not only reinforces isolation but can lead to early death.
John T. Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and president of the Association for Psychological Science. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
William Patrick , former editor for science and medicine at Harvard University Press, is editor in chief of the Journal of Life Sciences . He lives in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for chronic loneliness--which he defines an unrecognized syndrome--and brings it out of the shadow of its cousin, depression. 12 illustrations.
University of Chicago social neuroscientist John T. Cacioppo unveils his pioneering research on the startling effects of loneliness: a sense of isolation or social rejection disrupts not only our thinking abilities and will power but also our immune systems, and can be as damaging as obesity or smoking. A blend of biological and social science, this book demonstrates that, as individuals and as a society, we have everything to gain, and everything to lose, in how well or how poorly we manage our need for social bonds.
A magnificent expos?
A magnificent expos .
A magnificent expos?
Superb.
Wise, beautifully written, and often funny . . . a tour-de-force.
Wise, beautifully written, and often funny . . . a tour-de-force. '?helley E. Taylor, professor of psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Wise, beautifully written, and often funny . . . a tour-de-force. '?helley E. Taylor, professor of psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
'?ne of the most important books about the human condition to appear in a decade.'??aniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
One of the most important books about the human condition to appear in a decade. Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
SOne of the most important books about the human condition to appear in a decade. ??aniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness

작가정보

저자(글) Cacioppo, John T./ Patrick, William

John T. Cacioppo (1951--2018) was a psychology professor at the University of Chicago and director of the university's Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. He was the author of more than a dozen books, including Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connections.

저자(글) Patrick, William

William Patrick, former editor for science and medicine at Harvard University Press, is editor in chief of the Journal of Life Sciences. He lives in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

목차

• Acknowledgments	p. ix
  The Lonely Heart
  Lonely in a Social World	p. 3
  Variation, Regulation, and an Elastic Leash	p. 20
  Losing Control	p. 35
  Selfish Genes, Social Animals	p. 52
  The Universal and the Particular	p. 73
  The Wear and Tear of Loneliness	p. 92
  From Selfish Genes to Social Beings
  Sympathetic Threads	p. 113
  An Indissociable Organism	p. 128
  Knowing Thyself, among Others	p. 145
  Conflicted by Nature	p. 169
  Conflicts in Nature	p. 182
  Finding Meaning in Connection
  Three Adaptations	p. 201
  Getting It Right	p. 221
  The Power of Social Connection	p. 247
  Notes	p. 271
  Index	p. 297
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ISBN	9780393335286 ( 0393335283 )
발행(출시)일자	2009년 08월 01일
쪽수	336쪽
크기	137 * 206 * 20 mm / 272 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어