Coplan has been researching and touting the benefits of solitude for years. He believes it deserves a more prominent place in our lives. According to Coplan, carving out even 15 minutes a day for ...

Robert Coplan, Ph.D., is a psychologist who studies the costs and benefits of solitude across the lifespan and is the author ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

Many of us, including scholars, journalists, and neighbors, are working to strengthen local journalism. We host panels, conduct research, develop innovative ways to report, support independent ...

Some folks just seem to gravitate toward time alone, finding comfort in their own company. Maybe you recognize this in yourself or someone you know. Everyone has different reasons for enjoying ...

The past few years have given many of us a whole new understanding of solitude — whether we wanted it or not. Between the shelter-in-place orders, social distancing guidelines and mandatory ...

Prolonged screen-time and hyperconnectivity, more than just a time-suck, shape and displace real-world rituals of relating to others, fragment the psyche with addictive and emotionally erosive reward ...

The singer-songwriter decamped to Aaron Dessner's Long Pond Studio in upstate New York to record her new album, Returning to Myself.