>We are social animals
More like murder-anyone-not-from-our-low-double-digits-headcount-community animals ;) The way the phrase is popularly used is an equivocation.
Re:Why 30 is the decade friends disappear
by hackuser on Sunday November 13, 2016 @01:06AM
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I'm pretty sure that's wrong. People need social relationships to survive; it's not optional. People literally go insane without social contact.
That's ludicrous. There are countless hermits, castaways, and such who retained their sanity just fine. Even cabin fever is not insanity.
> Even cabin fever is not insanity.
If anything, the fact that cabin fever is so prevalent should be an indication that maybe humans haven't evolved to live in very close proximity for most of the time.
I'll just leave this here[1]:
> The upshot of 50 years of happiness research is that the quantity and quality of a person's social connections—friendships, relationships with family members, closeness to neighbors, etc.—is so closely related to well-being and personal happiness the two can practically be equated.
1 - http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/raising_happiness/post/happi...