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Social connection and longevity 13 May 2012

In an excerpt from his book Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, popular science writer Leonard MlodInow, writes about the link between our physical health and our connection with others.

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer. Many languages have expressions—such as “hurt feelings”—that compare the pain of social rejection to the pain of physical injury.

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