Lonely individuals typically fear negative evaluation and engage in overly cautious social behaviors that perpetuate their social isolation. Recent research has found analogous security-oriented (i.e., prevention-focused) responses following experiences highlighting concerns with social loss but differing growth-oriented (i.e., promotion-focused ) responses, such as attempts at social engagemen...

In a locally finite tiling of R by convex polytopes, each point x ∈ R is either a vertex of at least two tiles, or no vertex at all. MSC 2000: 52C22, 52C07

NEWS NEWS What do cerebellar Purkinje cells, working myocardium, skeletal muscle myocytes and cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) have in com-mon? Their high-voltage activated (HVA) Ca 2+ currents are mediated almost exclusively by a single calcium channel type: Cav2.1 (P-type) in Purkinje cells, Cav1.2 L-type in the heart, Cav1.1 in skeletal muscle and Cav1.3 in IHCs. In most other electrically e...

This article examines the attributional style of lonely and depressed people. Previous studies have suggested that both lonely and depressed individuals ascribe failure to characterological defects in themselves. However, the prototype of a lonely person and the prototype of a depressed person suggest that this characteristic attributional style should mainly hold for interpersonal failures. A ...

We give a simple argument proving the lonely runner conjecture in the case where the speed of the runners forms a certain lacunary sequence. This improves an earlier result by Pandey, and is then used to derive that for each number of runners the lonely runner conjecture is true for a set of nonzero measure in a natural probability space.

BACKGROUND Research suggests that the prevalence of loneliness varies between countries and that feeling lonely may be associated with poorer health behaviours and outcomes. The aim of the current study was to examine the factors associated with loneliness, and the relationship between feeling lonely and health behaviours and outcomes in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU)--a region ...