Why you should pay attention to your friends of friends (and their friends)…
Stumbled on on this very interesting article titled “Is Happiness catching?” in The New York Times published the day after my write up on John Cacioppo’s talk at the RSA on how loneliness is contagious.
The article is based on Christakis and Fowler’s research on the National Heart Institute’s Framingham Heart Study. 15,000 Framingham residents and their descendants have been followed since 1948 to learn about cardiovascular disease – but two years ago, Christakis and Fowler used the very same data set to analyze if people can influence each other’s behaviour just by socializing.
