Feeling especially giddy lately? You can have your friends to thank for that. Inadvertently, your good mood can be affecting your other friends, and your friends' friends. Studies show that happiness can be contagious like the flu, and spread through social networks up to three degrees removed from one another.
Although research shows that this emotional contagion is more dependent on proximity (the closer we are to the friend, the happier we feel) than behavior, the happy bug can last up to 12 months! So this holiday season, give the gift that keeps giving!
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