In a study that looked at the happiness of nearly 5,000 individuals over a period of 20 years, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego, found that one person’s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only their friends, but their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends. The effect lasts for up to one year.
The flip side, interestingly, is not the case: Sadness does not spread through social networks as robustly as happiness. Happiness appears to love company more so than misery.
Read more about this research on Harvard.
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That should be one of the few things that's positive and contagious at the same time.
I feel wwhat you wrote in your blog is very true. I will not write much regarding it.
Oh, is that so?. I'm going to march out right now, and do something and feel happy about it!. :0
hehehe so true happiness is something like that but sadness is not shared or goes through a chain its some thing which is felt by the closer ones to her or him
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