Losing touch with friends is a natural part of life but attempting to rekindle old friendships can be a daunting prospect and a new study explains why people are often hesitant to reconnect. The study was led by psychologists Professor Lara Aknin from Canada’s Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Dr Gillian Sandstrom from the University of Sussex in the UK who are old friends themselves and were inspired to carry out their research after rekindling their own friendship in 2022 in the hopes it might help others engage with friends they’ve lost contact with. Researchers carry out study into why peo…