"A paper being published Friday in a British medical journal concludes that happiness is contagious -- and that people pass on their good cheer even to total strangers. [...] a 20-year heart study also found the transferred happiness is good for up to a year.
'Happiness is like a stampede [...] Whether you're happy depends not just on your own actions and behaviors and thoughts, but on those of people you don't even know.'
...Happiness spread outward by three degrees, to the friends of friends of friends."
Friday, December 5, 2008
Three degrees of happiness
NY Times: Good Cheer May Spread Itself
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