I beg to differ - I get too many "please do that, help me with that, could you..., would you...i'll pay you back". Loneliness is pure bliss because people ask me to do sh8t.
From the article: "Loneliness is understood in this type of research as an emotional state rather than a physical one. We can be lonely in a crowd or delighted with an entire week of solitude to finally finish a project. It’s the emotional state that is bad for human health."
Agreed, people have been going into solitary retreats for thousands of years, many require it to become enlightened. Not including these data points makes psychology more of an anthropology survey rather than hard science of the mind. There’s this assumption that they just can’t figure out what’s going on with their mind so make blanket statements based on confused hypothesis. Almost all of Asia would dissagre since their culturals have countless examples today and in the past that completely disagree with this point thus making it not a universal study of the mind but for a limited set of people in a specific culture.