TITLE

Catching Happiness

PUB. DATE

March 2009

SOURCE

Massage & Bodywork;Spring/Summer2009 Body Sense, p4

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article emphasizes the positive impact of happy people on the people around them. Results of a research conducted by the scientists at Harvard University of California in San Diego, California show that people can catch and pass happiness from friends and family. People who are exposed to happy ones tend to share the same emotion with them. Moreover, a happy person often seem to spread the feeling to others.

ACCESSION #

36656532

Tags: HAPPINESS;  EMOTIONS (Psychology) -- Sociological aspects;  SOCIAL psychology -- Research;  UNIVERSITY of California, San Diego

 

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