Why Relationships? : A Reading List

Watch, read, and listen to the recommended resources below to learn more about isolation and its role in our society's systemic issues.

Watch

• “This Land of Strangers” – Robert Hall, Values Aligned Leadership Summit

• “The lethality of loneliness” – John Cacioppo at TEDxDesMoines

• “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” – Robert Putnam, LA Times Festival of Books

• “The hidden influence of social networks” – Nicholas Christakis, TED2010

• “Tracing Linkages between Social Isolation and Poverty” – Overcoming Isolation and Deepening Social Connectedness symposium, BBC

• “Our lonely society makes it hard to come home from war” – Sebastian Junger, TED Talks Live

• “From Isolation to Transformation” – Hazel Stuteley, at TEDxExter

• “What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness” – Robert Waldinger, TEDxBeaconStreet

• “How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)” – Grace Kim, TED2017

Listen

• “Businesses to Benefit from Addressing ‘Loneliness Epidemic,’ Doctor Says” -- All Things Considered, NPR

• “Political Scientist: Does Diversity Really Work?” – Analysis, NPR

Read

Articles

• “U.K. Appoints a Minister for Loneliness” – Ceylan Yeginsu, The New York Times

• “Relationship Between Loneliness, Psychiatric Disorders and Physical Health?” – Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

• “Poverty, isolation, and opportunity” – Emily Cuddy and Richard V. Reeves, Brookings Institute

• “How are poverty, ethnicity and social networks related?” – Joseph Rowntree Foundation

• “The terrible loneliness of growing up in Robert Putnam’s America” – Emily Badger, Washington Post

• “School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth” – Center for Disease Control

• “Work and the Loneliness Epidemic” – Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Harvard Business Review

• “The Surprising Effects of Loneliness on Health” – Jane E. Brody, The New York Times

• “The Power of Human Touch” – David Brooks, The New York Times

• “Loneliness May Warp Our Genes, And Our Immune Systems” – Angus Chen, NPR

Books

• This Land of Strangers, Robert Hall

• A Study of History (The Growth of Civilizations), Arnold J. Toynbee

• Braving the Wilderness, Brene Brown

• The Art of Neighboring, Dave Runyon and Jay Pathak

• The Transformations of Man, Lewis Mumford

• Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, Robert Putnam

• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam
  

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