Our Emotions are interdependnt with people we don't know


	Our Emotions are interdependnt with people we don't know

einbar

12-4-2008 11:10 PM

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einbar says:

How happy you are may depend on how happy your friends’ friends’ friends are, even if you don’t know them at all.

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12-4-2008 11:11 PM

einbar

Emotions have a collective existence — they are not just an individual phenomenon.”

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12-5-2008 11:27 AM

einbar

The orginal paper :
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec04_2/a2338" spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study"

12-5-2008 12:20 PM

darkduskx

A whole new meaning for "when you smile the whole world smiles with you"

12-5-2008 12:42 PM

einbar

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