John Cacioppo
John Cacioppo
John Terrence Cacioppois the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He founded and is Director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and the Director of the Arete Initiative of the Office of the Vice President for Research and National Laboratories at the University of Chicago. He co-founded the field of social neuroscience, and is a member of the Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, and the...
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Our results indicate loneliness is not a personality weakness. Quite the contrary, it is just part of the genetic variation that we find in humans.
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