{"id":9991,"date":"2008-12-05T22:04:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/happiness_it_really_is_contagious\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T22:04:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T22:04:49","slug":"happiness_it_really_is_contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9991","title":{"rendered":"Happiness: It Really Is Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, misery may not love company \u201d\u201d but happiness does, research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>A new study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego documents how happiness spreads through social networks.<\/p>\n<p>They found that when a person becomes happy, a friend living close by has a 25 percent higher chance of becoming happy themselves. A spouse experiences an 8 percent increased chance and for next-door neighbors, it&#8217;s 34 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=97831171\" title=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=97831171\">Read or listen to it all from NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, misery may not love company \u201d\u201d but happiness does, research suggests. A new study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego documents how happiness spreads through social networks. They found that when a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9991\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}