Add DMNews to your Google News feed. There’s a common misconception that people without close friends or family are lonely or depressed. But psychology tells a different story. Having no immediate ...

A person’s social network can be surprisingly complex. Yet, we think we only need a romantic partner and a nuclear family. Maybe one good friend. Otherwise, those not legally or biologically fastened ...

In my teens and twenties, I didn’t think much about how important it was to like the people I worked with. At the time, I was working as a waiter at a Toronto diner and being friends with my ...

Source: Pixabay/aszak/Public domain. A man is happy if he has merely encountered the shadow of a friend. —Menander Plato and Aristotle both gave an important place to friendship in the good life: ...

“I get by with a little help from my friends.” —The Beatles Earlier this month, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory regarding our nation’s “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation.