Fat Friends, Fat You. There is a connection
Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: September 10, 2009
an excerpt
As friends around us become heavier, we gradually change our mental picture of what obese looks like and give ourselves tacit permission to add pounds. With happiness, the two argue that the contagion may be even more deeply subconscious, the spread of good or bad feelings, they say, might be driven partly by mirror neurons in the brain that automatically mimic what we see in the faces of those around us, which is why looking at photographs of smiling people can itself often lift your mood.
By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: September 10, 2009
an excerpt
As friends around us become heavier, we gradually change our mental picture of what obese looks like and give ourselves tacit permission to add pounds. With happiness, the two argue that the contagion may be even more deeply subconscious, the spread of good or bad feelings, they say, might be driven partly by mirror neurons in the brain that automatically mimic what we see in the faces of those around us, which is why looking at photographs of smiling people can itself often lift your mood.
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