A 20 year study by American scientists suggests that happiness may spread from person to person because they found that people surrounded by happy people in their friends and family network were more likely to remain happy in the future.
The study was published online in the British Medical Journal, BMJ on 4 December by authors James H Fowler, associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California in San Diego, and Nicholas A Christakis, associate professor at the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The authors suggest that a person's happiness depends on the happiness of those with whom they are in regular direct and indirect contact - it really does rub off and is not just a matter of personal choice or experience. They also suggest that how close you live to a happy person in your network also has an effect: a friend who becomes happy and lives within a mile of you increases the likelihood of you being happy by 25 per cent.
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