Happiness

Happiness

Researchers reported that the more happy people you know, the more likely you are yourself to be happy. And getting connected to happy people improves a person's own happiness.

They have been analyzing a trove of facts from tracking sheets dating back to 1971, following births, marriages, death, and divorces. Volunteers also listed contact information for their closest friends, co-workers, and neighbors. They assessed happiness using a simple, four-question test. The 70% of people who scored highly on all four questions were rated as happy, while the rest were designated unhappy.

Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said: "What we are dealing with is an emotional stampede."

Fowler said:"People are asked how often during the past week, one, I enjoyed life, two, I was happy, three, I felt hopeful about the future, and four, I felt that I was just as good as other people."

People with the most social connections likewise, friends, spouses, neighbors, relatives, social networking like, marriage, parties, birthdays, celebration etc were also the happiest moment for each life, the data showed each additional happy person makes you happier. Your happiness depends on what is going on in the patch around you.

"Imagine that I am connected to you and you are connected to others and others are connected to still others. It is this fabric
of humanity, like an American patch quilt."

"It is not just happy people connecting with happy people, which they do. Above and beyond, there is this contagious process going on." And happiness is more contagious than unhappiness, they discovered. "If a social contact is happy, it increases the likelihood that you are happy by 15%,"

Fowler said. A friend of a friend, or the friend of a spouse or a sibling, if they are happy, increases your chances by 10 percent, he added. But every extra unhappy friend increases the likelihood that you'll be unhappy by 7%.

A happy third degree friend the friend or a friend of a friend increases a person's chances of being happy by 6%. Happiness has been shown to have an important effect on reduced mortality, pain reduction & improved cardiac function. So better understanding of how happiness spreads can help us learn how to promote a healthier society. The study also fits in with other data that suggested in 1984 that having $5,000 extra increased a person's chances of becoming happier by about 2%. Human who happy with other happiness are valueless and those people have a strong communication and remain exist in hearts after their death.