SINGAPORE - Do you switch on the television when you are alone to feel less lonely? A new study, published in the Personality And Social Psychology Bulletin last month, has shown that noise can indeed help drive away the blues.
Led by Singapore-based researcher Adam Wang, it found that loudness induces feelings of closeness and can guard against loneliness.
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