This is 1 of the first things humans do after birth, a kind of calling out for a response from someone.
What is crying?
The feeling of being included and supported within a social group or environment.
What is acceptance?
Similar to the effect of exercising, these are released during and after positive social interactions, leading to feelings of increased happiness and reduced stress.
What are Endorphins?
Fear of being negatively judged or watched by others.
What is Social Anxiety?
This gender is less likely to reach out to a wider network for emotional support.
What are Males? This is 1 example of how patriarchy hurts males too.
Level of safety and ease for people to walk to places in a neighborhood or city.
What is Walkability?
Social isolation has been compared to smoking 15 cigarettes per day and negatively affects this.
What is Physical Health?
Highly personal, used as a metaphor for how much energy a person has for socializing.
What is Social Battery?
This is both a trait and a condition and is the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties.
What is Resilience?
Nearness in distance, place or time. May be virtual or IRL.
What is Proximity?
This is an integral part of successful treatment of addictions.
What is Social Connection?
The act of turning an object or experience into a saleable product.
What is Commodification?
Level of social connectedness has been correlated to the amount of this in your wallet.
What is Money?
One of the behaviors of social bonding. It is a way to communicate playfulness and often is a sign that a person is having good time.
What is Laughter?
Social connectedness has been shown to increase this, something Mick Jaggar could have used more of.
What is Life Satisfaction?
The belief that work is inherently better or more moral than leisure.
What is Work Ethic?
Rural or Urban: People living in this type of area report lower levels of loneliness, greater age diversity of social network and greater connection with acquintances and close friends.
What is Rural?
A place outside of your home or school/work that you can get to and is comfortable, cheap or free, where the main activities are playful, relaxed and conversational and people can go alone and arrive amongst acquaintances.
What is a Third Place?
These are the opp of traumatic life events. Social bonding and connection are often involved in these.
What are Positive Life Experiences?
The United States is the only developed nation that lacks this, joining only the Pacific island nations of Nauru, Kiribati, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
What is Mandatory Time-Off (or Minimum Annual Leave)?