Please Pass the Happiness

Friday, December 5, 2008 - 11:14 in Health & Medicine

A smile is infectious, as the saying goes, and now scientists have proven it. A study published today in British Medical Journal shows that happiness really is a blessed disease: it can spread from person to person through social channels. On average, the study finds, every happy friend increases your own chance of being happy by 9 percent. read more

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