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We all feel lonely sometimes. It's part of being human (according to Discover, it's also a survival mechanism!). But some people struggle with loneliness so deeply that they develop elaborate ...

When it comes to human behavior, it’s rarely the grand gestures that tell the truth—it’s the micro-moments. The unguarded reactions, the slips between words, the ways people hold themselves when they ...

Late last night, hundreds of warm bodies piled together in the 20° weather outside of the undergraduate library at UNC Chapel Hill. For ten minutes at midnight, Carolina students shed the weight of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking ...