Nobody’s been studying socially isolated kids, and that’s a problem

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Nobody’s been studying socially isolated kids, and that’s a problem

For years, psychology researchers have treated peer rejection and social network isolation as being somewhat interchangeable when it comes to early adolescence; it was thought that if kids fell into one of those two groups, they fell into the other. A recent study finds there is actually little overlap between the groups—and socially isolated kids face different risks.

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