{"id":46224,"date":"2023-09-20T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=46224"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:40:59","slug":"why-solitude-can-be-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2023\/why-solitude-can-be-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Solitude Can Be Good for You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Why Solitude Can Be Good for You\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Chancellor&#8217;s Professor <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/robert-coplan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Coplan<\/a>&#8216;s (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Psychology<\/a>) research has been gaining media attention recently. In addition to his talk for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">MeWeRTH<\/a>, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/cu-events\/mewerth-2023-lunch-and-learn-living-well-series-dr-robert-coplan\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Power and Paradox of Solitude: Making the Case for the Benefits of Being Alone<\/a><\/em>, he has been featured on several radio shows and the podcast <em>At Your Best<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/580-cfra\/oaw-why-solitude-can-be-good-for-you-and-what-make?in_playlist=ottawa-at-work#description\" target=\"_blank\">580 CFRA, Ottawa at Work with Patricia Boal<\/a>: Why solitude can be good for you, and what makes it different from loneliness. Spending time alone can have benefits for both mental and physical health. That beneficial solitude differs from outright loneliness, which has taken on added weight in post-pandemic lockdowns. Robert Coplan, a professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, joins Patricia Boal to talk through what those benefits can look like and how to differentiate between solitude and loneliness.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/am-800-cklw\/loneliness-is-harmful-to-your-health-but-solitude?in_playlist=the-shift-with-patty-handysides#description\" target=\"_blank\">AM 800 CKLW,<\/a> Loneliness is harmful to your health, but solitude is beneficial. In a world that&#8217;s constantly connected virtually, the notion of solitude seems elusive, even daunting, and being alone is often thought of in a negative context. But solitude is not the same as loneliness &#8211; and when people choose to spend time by themselves, it can actually be beneficial, according to Robert Coplan, a professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa.<br><br><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2a1RNDBA6SLavczjhEm2om?si=368779c522104c27&amp;nd=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>At Your Best<\/em> Podcast<\/a>, Find out the benefits of spending time by yourself with Carleton University professor of psychology Robert Coplan. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor&#8217;s Professor Robert Coplan&#8216;s (Department of Psychology) research has been gaining media attention recently. In addition to his talk for MeWeRTH, The Power and Paradox of Solitude: Making the Case for the Benefits of Being Alone, he has been featured on several radio shows and the podcast At Your Best. Listen below: 580 CFRA, Ottawa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-research-2"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46261,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224\/revisions\/46261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}