The Four Predictors of Divorce, Why You Love Being Part of a Crowd, and Types of Loneliness

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Learn about how to find out what type of loneliness you’re feeling so you can figure out how to deal with it; the psychological reason why you love being part of a crowd; and the four communication styles that can predict the end of a marriage.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Quiz: What Type of Lonely Are You? — https://curiosity.im/2W5DirG
This Psychological Concept Explains Why You Love Being Part of a Crowd — https://curiosity.im/2u67Qxn
These Are the Four Horsemen of Divorce — https://curiosity.im/2W5D3Ni

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0:00.0	Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you learn about how to find out what type of loneliness you're feeling so you can figure
0:10.9	out how to deal with it, the psychological effect that explains why you love being part of a crowd,
0:15.5	and the four communication styles that can predict the end of a marriage.
0:19.5	But satisfy some curiosity.
0:21.0	According to research, loneliness isn't just one feeling.
0:24.6	It's more of a term for several feelings.
0:27.0	And in a paper published in October 2018 in the journal Social Psychiatry and psychiatric
0:31.4	epidemiology, researchers came up with a way to categorize your loneliness
0:36.0	and it could help you figure out the best way to move past it.
0:39.0	This paper says that you can plot two types of loneliness on a graph
0:42.0	so you end up with four categories.
0:45.1	The two axes are social loneliness and emotional loneliness.
0:49.3	Social loneliness means you're not happy with how many social relationships you have.
0:53.4	If you're socially lonely, you might feel like if you threw a party,
0:56.5	only a few people would come.
0:58.3	You might search online for the phrase,
0:59.7	how to make friends.
1:01.2	On the other hand, emotional loneliness means you're not happy with
1:04.1	the quality of your social relationships. If you're emotionally lonely you might have a
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