Fig. 1: U.S. media portrays being alone as a harmful experience.
From: How people think about being alone shapes their experience of loneliness
A Among U.S. newspaper articles (N = 144) published between 2020–2022, news headlines are 10 times more likely to depict being alone negatively than positively. B News article full texts are 5 times more likely to mention the risks of being alone than the benefits of being alone. C The percentage of news articles that mention different types of risks and benefits of being alone. Error bars indicate +/− 1 Bootstrapped SE.
