“Living Near Happy Friends Has the Greatest Effect on Your Own Happiness”

Jess Brooks
Totally Mental
Published in
1 min readSep 14, 2016

“Of the types of relationships and social ties that spread happiness, the Framingham Heart Study, which tracked individuals from 1983 to 2003, found that mutual friends living within a mile of each other and next door neighbors influenced happiness the most”

Related: “Coregulation ‘for better or worse’: The transmission of positive and negative emotions in close relationships

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Jess Brooks
Totally Mental

A collection blog of all the things I am reading and thinking about; OR, my attempt to answer my internal FAQs.