Happy Friends, Happy You-There is a Connection
Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: September 10, 2009
an excerpt
Happiness is more contagious than unhappiness. According to their statistical analysis from the Framingham Data, which followed since 1948 more than 15,000 Framingham residents and their descendants, found each additional happy friend boosts your good cheer by 9 percent, while each additional unhappy friend drags you down by only 7 percent. So by this logic, adding more links to your network should — mathematically — add to your store of happiness.
By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: September 10, 2009
an excerpt
Happiness is more contagious than unhappiness. According to their statistical analysis from the Framingham Data, which followed since 1948 more than 15,000 Framingham residents and their descendants, found each additional happy friend boosts your good cheer by 9 percent, while each additional unhappy friend drags you down by only 7 percent. So by this logic, adding more links to your network should — mathematically — add to your store of happiness.
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