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...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 in social networks can feel lonely. According to Christakis, the article on loneliness takes a more technical approach to the loneliness theory discussed in his newest book...
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...
...September, he and University of California at San Diego professor James H. Fowler ‘92 released a book titled “Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives...
...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 Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1971 and asked its subjects about their emotional state at regular intervals...
After reprocessing the data, the trio constructed the social networks using ties, such as familial or professional relationships, recorded in the original study...