Day: March 10, 2026

The Psychology of Solitude

The Psychology of Solitude SOLO | Thuy-Vy Nguyen and Robert Coplan | Solitude

  Alone isn’t lonely. Psychologist Robert Coplan, author of The Joy of Solitude, coined aloneliness—the distress of not getting enough time to yourself. Psychologist Thuy-vy Nguyen, co-author of Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone, discovered the “deactivation effect”—just fifteen minutes alone turns down the volume on your emotions. Peter McGraw talks to them […]