For the study, the researchers analysed data on 5,124 adults, aged 21-70, collected in the Framingham Heart Study to find out if happiness can spread from person to person and if clusters of happiness form within social networks.
They then focused on 4,739 participants who were followed up from 1983-2003.
Overall, they found that social networks were correlated with happiness.
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by Alberta Dowse
When a woman has pregnancy signs, she instantly becomes very anxious to find out the truth, whether we’re talking about a desired pregnancy or not. The classic signs of pregnancy are not only old-fashioned, but many times unreliable – that’s why women turn to more professional methods, such as pregnancy tests, and that’s due to the fact that they’re both accurate and they give fast results.
What will they think of next?
In a disturbing trend, teens are taking to “self-embedding,” a new form of mutilation. The practice takes self-cutting one step further, by literally embedding an object inside the wound.
The practice has an addictive tendency, and “unlike cutting, which causes pain and then the pain subsides with healing, embedding causes constant and increasing pain.”
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