In this episode, Aubrey and Courtney talk about how human connection is an innate human need, why we feel the deep urge to connect with others, what happens when we are (or are not) connected to others, and how to make moves in your own community to find more connection.

** Corrected reference made to the ancient diving people from near the Philippines: The Bajau people live across the southern Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia (Wikipedia).

Resources:

Social inhibition, sense of belonging and vulnerability to internalizing problems by Elisabeth L.de Moor, JohanDenollet, Odilia M.

Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter

Tribe by Sebastian Junger

How We Became so Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us by Will Storr

Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler

It’s all done with mirrors: Neurological and sociological integration in the case of limb transplants

Alexandra Catherine Hayes Nowakowski

Empathy, mirror neurons and SYNC by Ryszard Praszkier

Purposely stoic, accidentally alone? Self-monitoring moderates the relationship between emotion suppression and loneliness

By Veronica Smith, Elicia C. Lair, Sean M. O’Brien

Effects of Social Exclusion on Cognitive Processes: Anticipated Aloneness Reduces Intelligent Thought By Baumeister, Roy F

Social Exclusion Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Reducing Its Impact By Paolo Riva and Jennifer Eck

Religious involvement and physical and emotional functioning among African Americans: The mediating role of religious support by Holt CL, Wang MQ, Clark EM, Williams BR, Schulz E.

Groups 4 Health: Evidence that a social-identity intervention that builds and strengthens social group membership improves mental health by Haslam C, Cruwys T, Haslam SA,  Dingle G, Chang MX

The Different Behavioral Intentions of Collectivists and Individualists in Response to Social Exclusion

Social by Matthew Leiberman

Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-are-wired-to-connect/

Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-chemistry/201712/the-neuroscience-loneliness

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