Comments on: Be Happy; It’s Contagious

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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:07:27 +0000

[...] stay healthy, you become happy and it could affect your surroundings. According to the researchers, happiness is spread through people who share the same time and space. I wonder, have you had any experience [...]

By: Audrey Muccio

Audrey Muccio — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:25:31 +0000

There’s no doubt that happiness is contagious - I’m hoping for an epidemic

By: deaner

deaner — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:38:29 +0000

When is this goofy story gonna pass? I’m tired of seeing and hearing about it.

By: John Deer

John Deer — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:58:07 +0000

This is a textbook example of an academic study the media love to talk about: it’s about happiness and emotions, it looks serious (academic work), it’s about friends… The media hype unfortunately hides the weaknesses of this type of research: until the researchers take the time to conduct independent, paralle inquiries (called “replications”), their results should be taken very cautiously. It is too bad so many research projects are done in a “hit and run” manner, to impress the media more than the science community.