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Laughter is supposedly contagious, but so is loneliness, according to a new article co-authored by Harvard Medical School professor and Pforzheimer House Master Nicholas A. Christakis.
In the article “Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network,” Christakis and his co-authors argue that loneliness can be transmitted from person to person within a social network, and that even individuals who are included...
“Most people think of emotions as only properties of individuals,” Christakis said. “Collective anger and fear of riots are typically considered group emotions, but we wanted to look at everyday emotions like loneliness.”
Christakis has received much attention for his research on social networks and was included in Time magazine’s list of the world’s most influential people in 2009.
The article was a collaborative effort with Fowler as well as University of Chicago professor John T. Cacioppo that was published Monday in the December issue of The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Christakis, Fowler, and Cacioppo used a decade’s worth of data collected by the...