While it is great to see #loneliness continue to garner high-profile coverage, pieces such as this one nature often perpetuate the individualized narrative that my colleagues and I, among others, have critiqued: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…. Let’s think about structural solutions!

👏This paper, by the authors of our Loneliness Inequalities evidence review, draws on the review to argue that loneliness should be tackled as a social justice issue ⏬

Is #loneliness just a 'fault' of individuals? We argue no. Check out our new paper OA in Political Psychology, with the esteemed Manuela Barreto and Pam Qualter, framing loneliness as a social justice issue in need of sociopolitical and structural solutions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

What better way to start the week than learning about the importance of social health?🧑‍🤝‍🧑 For further information, see pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38349646/

We met someone special today at #DOA ! 🥰

'Everyone has had the experience of waking up either physically sick or mentally down, and the idea of getting out of bed seems both impossible and unappealing. Now imagine waking up and thinking that no one in the world cares about our presence in it.' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Colleagues from the gynecology department published important findings today: even after starting testosterone, a third of transmasculine persons still ovulate!
This underlines how important it is that everyone has access to suitable contraceptives, including trans people 💪🏳️‍⚧️

In our new paper Health Psychology Review we define #socialhealth as 'adequate quantity and quality of relationships in a particular context to meet an individual’s need for meaningful human connection.' This maps onto past research and pushes the field forward. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Affirm Relationships website is now live🥳 Want to learn more about the project, or get in involved? Check it out at affirmrelationships.com

Come work with our dynamic group ⁦Amsterdam UMC⁩. In the TANDEM project, led by the eminent ⁦Annelou de Vries⁩, we will use network analyses and LCA, among others, on unique clinical and research data sets to uncover diverse tx and dev pathways. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures/r…