Loneliness is associated with unstable and distorted emotion transition predictions.

Commun Psychol · 2025 · PMC12394594 · PMID 40877578

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Loneliness was also associated with greater likelihood of staying in a negative state (i.e., negative-to-negative), although this relationship was marginally statistically significant ( β = 0.061, SE = 0.033, p = 0.065, 95% CI [-0.004, 0.126], τ2 = 0.006, I 2 = 0.77%).

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