sadness | Helter Skelter Magazine https://helterskelter.in/label/sadness/ Fresh Voices and New Writing From and About India Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:18:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 Happiness and Sadness Spread Just Like Disease https://helterskelter.in/2010/07/happiness-and-sadness-spread-just-like-disease/ https://helterskelter.in/2010/07/happiness-and-sadness-spread-just-like-disease/#respond Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:44:03 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=801 Brandon Keim reports for Wired magazine — “There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious. “A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease. “Earlier studies raised the possibility,…

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