Psychology says adults who keep the radio on in an empty house aren’t lonely, they grew up in homes where silence usually meant something bad was about to be said and learned to find safety in backgro
Summary
Adults who keep the radio playing in an empty house are often read as lonely. The research and the lived patterns suggest something more specific: a nervous system that learned, early, to find safety in background voices because silence used to mean something hard was coming.
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