Single is better!

Loneliness is considered a stigma that can trigger positive behavioral changes. 

Researchers argue that single people have a better survival instinct than humans that have partners.

"The researches in the last few decades have suggested a very different perspective on loneliness, other than what is claimed in the everyday personal experience, that loneliness meets a variety of adaptive functions in certain specific habitats," said John Cacioppo, the coordinator team of researchers from Chicago, whose study was published in the Cognition & Emotion journal.

"While it might seem that loneliness has no liberating feature, it promotes behavioral changes that increase the probability of the human genes survival. Suffering of loneliness was meant to urge us to renew the connections we need to renew the ties that we need to ensure our survival and promote social trust, cohesion and collective actions," said John Cacioppo.

However, researchers said that loneliness could explain people's decision to support a sports team or a particular group.

"The existence of a connection factor at a collective level, which is at the base of loneliness, suggests that people could develop the ability and motivation to not only form relationships with other individuals, but also with other groups ( ... ), and the result would be a better cooperation in adverse conditions (competitions, hunting, war). Identifying with the goup and investing in it, however, could increase the likelihood of the group continuity, its members and their individual genetic heritage," said Professor Cacioppo.

On the other hand, the people in this video have their own opinion about loneliness: