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G. Stanley Hall Lecture
April 25, 2022 at 4:00 pm until 5:00 pm
Together, Apart
In this lively presentation, Susan Pinker will talk about some of the scientific underpinnings of social contact and its absence: the downstream effects of loneliness on our bodies and psyches. In the context of the pandemic, when face-to-face interaction has been limited, what features of social contact are lost and which can be preserved? Using evidence from social neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, the case will be made that social contact is as necessary to our survival as food and water.