The wife of the brother of a coworker is having a good day? If so, that is good news for you. Happiness is catching, researchers have found-and their values, not just the effect of the transitional period, the laughter of the crowd, or a high spirits. A recent study shows that people who are virtually strangers in may affect other moods, so long as one year.
Nicholas Christakis, physician and social scientist, Harvard Medical School and James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, Professor at the Department of political science, explore the spread of happiness in a social network through and learned that it passes only to the person, but also for people of up to three degrees removed--friends, that is to say.
The researchers took note of the information, known as the Framingham Heart study, and were again almost 5,000 people who had responded to the questions put to them by the subjective, their feelings of happiness, more than 20 years--a social network, whether they felt hopeful for the future, for example.
It is not surprising the people closest to each other, was the largest effect on happiness levels. But the people who were so far removed, they may have never even met, was also not detectable effects.
More happy relationships in person was likely to end the individual was, Fowler and Christakis are complied with.
In this work the takeaway? We do not fully meet the essential requirements on their own happiness in the control. It does not depend solely on their own choices, actions and experience. Emotions are, what is required by Christakis "collective existence."
Unhappiness is also "contagious," the researchers noted, but it appears there is a lot less impact on the social network members.
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