James Brody
December 30th, 2008, 02:51 PM
No surprises here! And probably more research would find gloomy people to be "weak links" that maintain the network when happy hubs take a break!
Happy New Year!
JimB
"SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HAPPINESS
By Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler
"We found that social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person's happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%."
More at http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/christakis_fowler08/christakis_fowler08_index.html
Happy New Year!
JimB
"SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HAPPINESS
By Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler
"We found that social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person's happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%."
More at http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/christakis_fowler08/christakis_fowler08_index.html