Happiness can not be alone. Shines from his eyes, sweating hands, vibrates in the body and eventually beat it like a virus and is transmitted to the next location. And there is a group of scientists who tried to draw a map of "contagion" and called for a 5 thousand people for twenty years, well below what they felt happy with the response by wives, brothers, friends and neighbors home. By dint of combining colored dots (people, each with its score of good humor) was formed on the table of American researchers who seems to be a drawing of a hand innervated blood vessels. Each pulse of happiness from a point and is passed as a fluid throughout the body.
Not everything is rosy, of course. The infection follows its own rules, and the authors of "The spread of happiness in a wide social network of individuals," published today in the British Medical Journal, have identified a few. The law of contagion, for a start, it seems to work with colleagues.
The workplace is like a buffer that blocks the flow of happiness from one individual to another, "says James Fowler of the University of California at San Diego and Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School. The two (the first sociologist, a doctor who specializes in the relationship between mood and health, the second) are the authors of a study that has carved between the mountains of data, interviews and personal matters relating to 5,124 people in the U.S..
Despite the success of the groups on the Internet - is
the second rule of the infection - positive emotions are not able to travel either by phone or online. Like a real virus, transmitted to the happiness he needs physical contact. And this brings us back a bit 'further back in our evolutionary scale, the time when communications technology had not yet taken off. "Many of our emotions are transmitted through body signals, and the face has a major role in this," says Pio Ricci Bitti, who teaches psychology at the University Bologna and studied the communication of feelings between people.
"The contagion is probably the mechanism of empathy and mirror neurons. When we see someone express an emotion in our brain are activated the same areas that are" burning "at the time of the interlocutor in the brain."
last decade the study of mirror neurons - which began in Italy, Parma, by neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti - helped a lot to explain as is the sharing of emotions and how different individuals can come "in tune". Critics of this theory argue that the mechanism of empathy (in men as in animals) would take effect only when we observe another individual move. But if we consider the actions that a person does with the rest of the face and body when she is happy, it is not difficult to complete the jump from body movements to the emotions of the mind. "And not only the joy can be transmitted this way. Think of the emotion and the tears, how quickly they invade a group of people gathered together"
It 'an old article published on December 5, 2008 Republic now found by chance, and makes me think even more than that the dynamism of a society in which every day without even realizing it scambiamosegni and interact with all those around us that make up our psychological space that is what we develop, that strikes us, not just the physical material. Then in all affects our mood and nostrocomportamento and this can then infect others and ourselves we do not feel the same way after a second ago. Perhaps the dynamics of the masses in narrow contexts such as a stadium or a concert reflect this behavior, many concentrated there with the same interest in watching the show. It 's a little bit what stands out from "answer to a friend" According -I is also pensarea how important it is for the real well-being that environmental quality is reflected in both physical health (eg thinking all'imquinamento .) and psychological (thinking about the traffic and stress that goes with it, on the same instance.). This, too, and perhaps most importantly it is measure of wealth of a state even if not directly palpable by hand (but with the mind) is paraphrasing a bit what has Amarthya Sen in theory, with a new economic model that has earned him the Nobel.
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