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Is happiness contagious? 🤗

2023-09-18 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Evidence-based framing

Ali summarises a Harvard study from the Framingham Heart Study: the happiness of individuals in its social network was linked to induction, homophily or confounding, and the more happy people you are surrounded by, the more likely you are to become happy, though the effect was not found between coworkers.

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00:00:00 — Is happiness contagious: the Framingham Heart Study happiness network

  • ★★ Ali says a Harvard study, the Framingham Heart Study, begun in Massachusetts in the 1980s, followed 53,000 people for 20 years to find out whether happiness is contagious. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says the Framingham researchers observed 4,739 central people and their social ties, including family, coworkers, friends and neighbours, monitoring over 53,000 people on a depression scale. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Ali says the Framingham results were drawn as a happiness cluster network, showing unhappy people in blue and the happiest in green. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ According to the Framingham study as Ali reports it, individuals' happiness was connected to one of three processes, the first being induction: one person's happiness causes another's. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ The second process Ali gives from the Framingham study is homophily: happy people choose other happy people as friends. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ The third process Ali gives from the Framingham study is confounding: individuals share the same happy environment, such as their neighbourhood or economic situation. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Ali says the Framingham researchers concluded that the more happy people you are surrounded by, the more likely you are to become happy in the future. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Ali notes that in the Framingham study the spread of happiness was not found between coworkers. — 00:00:29

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you become happier? — Ali says the Framingham researchers concluded that the more happy people you are surrounded by, the more likely you are to become happy in the future. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

Central: Framingham Heart Study

Also: Harvard University · Massachusetts

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