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	Happiness is contagious, research finds

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12-5-2008 12:44 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aff4d3a1-cc81-41b5-8b0e-abb33a4d122d/BA8869CA-0419-4725-9465-A479F1BB49AA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-happy5-2008dec05,0,5449915.story" href="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-happy5-2008dec05,0,5449915.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-happy5-2008dec05,0,5449915.story">They say misery loves company, but the same may be even more true of happiness. 
<BR><BR>In a study published online today by the British Medical Journal, 
scientists from Harvard University and UC San Diego showed that happiness 
spreads readily through social networks of family members, friends and 
neighbors. <BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-happy5-2008dec05,0,5449915.story">
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<DIV class=storybody>Knowing someone who is happy makes you 15.3% more likely to 
be happy yourself, the study found. A happy friend of a friend increases your 
odds of happiness by 9.8%, and even your neighbor's sister's friend can give you 
a 5.6% boost. <BR><BR>"Your emotional state depends not just on actions and 
choices that you make, but also on actions and choices of other people, many of 
which you don't even know," said Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, a physician and 
medical sociologist at Harvard who co-wrote the study. <BR></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-happy5-2008dec05,0,5449915.story">The research is part of a growing trend to measure well-being as a crucial 
component of public health. Scientists have documented that people who describe 
themselves as happy are likely to </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BA8869CA-0419-4725-9465-A479F1BB49AA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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