329. The psychology of the male loneliness epidemic
The Psychology of your 20s
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we break down the growing conversation around the “male loneliness epidemic”: what’s true, what’s misleading, and what the research actually says. This is a complex and controversial topic, but one that deserves a clear, evidence-based perspective.
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Why has loneliness been declared a global health crisis?
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How the global loneliness epidemic differs from the male loneliness epidemic
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Are men actually the lonelier gender?
- The role of patriarchy, the manosphere, scapegoating, and in-group/out-group psychology
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The consequences for both men and women
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Healthy, proactive approaches to tackling loneliness in society
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:15.7 | through some of the big life changes and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast, new listeners, old |
| 0:33.4 | listeners, wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another episode |
| 0:38.9 | as we, of course, break down the psychology of our 20s. |
| 0:44.6 | Guys, I'm nervous for today's episode. I really am because I think I am tackling my most |
| 0:51.3 | controversial topic and my most controversial episode yet. So much so that I actually |
| 0:58.8 | kind of went back and forth as to whether I wanted to do this episode for a few months now. |
| 1:05.0 | Do I talk about the male loneliness epidemic as a woman? Or do I just leave it? Do I just, do I give my opinion? Do I dive into |
| 1:13.8 | the research? Or do I let someone else kind of tackle that dumpster fire? As of about a week ago, |
| 1:20.6 | I had kind of decided that this topic was one that I wasn't going to discuss on the podcast. But then |
| 1:25.8 | I had a conversation with my friend, Emily, we were in the |
| 1:28.8 | car, and we were discussing this for, I would say literally, over an hour, all the different angles, |
| 1:35.6 | the male friendship angle, the misogyny angle, the co-ed school angle, the historical angle, |
| 1:42.0 | and just from a purely, a pure fascination point of view, like, |
| 1:48.1 | I could not resist doing this topic. I feel like my favorite episodes are the ones that are making |
| 1:55.3 | a personal mark in my own life. This is one of those things. So today, we're going to do it. We're |
| 2:00.7 | going to talk about the male loneliness epidemic, we're going to do it. We're going to talk |
| 2:01.1 | about the male loneliness epidemic, what it is, the ways it is very much valid, and also what it is |
| 2:09.2 | not. Of course, whilst we do that, we're going to break it down through the lens of |
| 2:15.4 | psychology, and we're going to use academic research, peer-reviewed studies, |
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