ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
According to a 2023 survey, 24% of the global population felt “very lonely”. This percentage is even higher in the case of marginalized groups: research suggests that up to half of persons with cognitive disabilities experience loneliness, despite their emancipation after the 1960s. Attempts to reduce their loneliness have only limited success, because we do not fully understand why people with cognitive disabilities experience more loneliness than the general population. What academic research in particular lacks are studies about interpersonal (dis)connections between people with and without cognitive disabilities over a longer period of time and in different places in the world. The…
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