Past studies have shown that lonely people often feel their lives lack meaning
Meaning can be forged by rituals even those based on product consumption
Experts surveyed people about their loneliness and practice of consumer rituals
They found that the lonelier people were, the more little rituals they followed
In addition, performing rituals helped abate induced loneliness in experiments
Brands, the team said, can foster customer engagement by selling them rituals
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