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REMOTE CONTROL: THE ZOOM EFFECT

Dr Louise Hawkley is a principal research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago and has studied loneliness for more than two decades. When the pandemic hit, Hawkley was on a team that had been surveying a group of older adults as

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