Misery apparently does love company.
Happiness has proved less social than sadness. In a new study, each online happy friend increased an individual’s chances of personal happiness by 11 percent, while just one sad friend was needed to double an individual’s chance of becoming unhappy.
Data from the research released from the July 7 Proceedings of the Royal Society found that the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease. Earlier studies raised the possibility, but had not mapped social networks against actual disease models.
Read more at Wired Science, NEWS FOR YOUR NEURONS.
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