In the extreme isolation of lunar settlements (or even space stations), anxiety and depression are likely to spread from worker to worker in a form of social contagion, according to Chester Spell, an associate professor of management at Rutgers University. Sound far-fetched? Spell says it already happens in quasi-isolated workplaces such as remote Australian mining towns and Antarctic stations.
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