loneliness
SFU professor develops guidelines for social connection
March 4, 2025When sick or injured, we’re told to go to the doctor. But what about when we’re lonely? As cited by SFU News, a 2023 study from the US Department of Health and Human Services found that social disconnection, or being socially isolated and lonely, increases the likelihood of premature death just as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day does. Now, an initiative led by SFU assistant professor of health sciences Kiffer Card is trying to eliminate the public health issue of loneliness. Card, also the scientific director for the Canadian Alliance for Social Connection and Health (CASCH), headed a…
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Plot-heavy porn soars in popularity as the pandemic leaves population lonely
November 18, 2020VANCOUVER, BC — A wholly baseless study done by two horny dudes on Reddit revealed that their equally horny online friends recently started searching for porn with painfully lengthy intros “just to feel something” this past week. u/gumcuzzler69 and u/asunamorelikeassuna…
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Student Loneliness: You are not alone in feeling lonely
July 7, 2019When SFU undergraduates Jennifer Yi, Keith Chan, Grace Kim, Renmart Buhay, and Matt Li entered Map the Systems, they had no idea that they would go on to place second in SFU’s finals. The global competition asks students to explore…
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Researchers study how to better treat mental health problems for seniors and youth
November 8, 2018Video games can help seniors maintain health SFU education and gerontology researcher David Kaufman has found that playing video games is good for the mental health of the elderly. Kaufman’s research, which surveyed 1,200 seniors, indicates that video games…
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