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DEL.ICIO.USLifted by a stranger?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ever been lifted by a stranger?
A new study shows how happiness is contagious. Strangers and neighbors especially revealed a stronger effect on your happiness than once thought. According to one author of the study, “Emotions have a collective existence - they are not just an individual phenomenon.”
Why strangers? The study showed that experiencing happiness in proximity to someone made the difference, whether or not you knew that person well, or at all.
How about you - have you experienced happiness from a stranger? Has a casual acquaintance’s good mood rubbed off on you?
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By TOMMY
December 17, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
I meet strangers (Try Frank Sinatra’s Strangers’ in the Night. every day.I think I’ll dig out the sheet music today and PLAY IT!——Tommy Ford, Roswell, Georgia.