Angelina Sutin, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, was interviewed for an article titled "Loneliness can kill you" that recently was published in The Independent. It details a Ugandan study that confirmed an association among social isolation, loneliness and mortality.

She was not involved in the research; the results were published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

Sutin's research addresses how personality traits are associated with physical and mental health..Read the article, including her comments, in The Independent.