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Loneliness as Displacement from Social Ground State: The Hypervigilance Wrong Attractor and the Modern Epidemic of Isolation

Rincón, D. · 2026 · Zenodo · displacement from social ground state

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We apply the displacement framework to loneliness, formalizing it as perceived displacement from social ground state S0_social and formalizing Cacioppo's hypervigilance model as a self-reinforcing wrong attractor that prevents return to belonging.

displacement framework · loneliness · social isolation · ground state · wrong attractor · belonging

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