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iht.com - 12/6/2008
Strangers may cheer you up, study says - International Herald Tribune
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How happy you are may depend on how happy your friends' friends' friends are, even if you don't know them at all. And a cheery next-door neighbor has more effect on your happiness than your spouse's mood. So says a new study that followed a large group of people for 20 years — happiness is more ...

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Smile, Dammit
JustOneMinute — Smile, Dammit This is the most important thing you will read today. Or this . Posted by Tom Maguire on December 05, 2008 | Permalink

A small thing you can do
TigerHawk — I had written a sharp-witted post on Barack Obama's proposal for a massive program to build infrastructure, but I fat-fingered my keyboard and deleted more than an hour's work. So, instead, you get this : How happy you are may depend on how happy your friends' friends' friends are, even if you don't know them at all. And a cheery next-door neighbor has more effect on your happiness than your spouse's mood. So says a new study that followed a large group of people for 20 years — happiness is more contagious than previously thought. "Your happiness depends not just on your ...

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