{"id":1962,"date":"2008-12-11T00:12:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T04:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2008-12-11T01:17:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T05:17:43","slug":"the-key-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/the-key-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"The key observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are essentially social animals. No man is an island. Etc. You&#8217;ve heard it all, but now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/christakis_fowler08\/christakis_fowler08_index.html\">there&#8217;s science<\/a> that actually kind of shows it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Happiness, in short, is not merely a function of personal experience, but also is a property of groups. Emotions are a collective phenomenon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy people tend to cluster with happy people, and unhappy people likewise&#8211;shocking, right? Having one happy friend raises the chances of you being happy almost five times as much as having $5K more of income&#8211;people who have happy friends are better than rich, in a now measurable sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emotions are a collective phenomenon.<\/strong> Yeah, I&#8217;m going to have to think about that. A lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Humans are essentially social animals. No man is an island. Etc. You&#8217;ve heard it all, but now there&#8217;s science that actually kind of shows it. Happiness, in short, is not merely a function of personal experience, but also is a property of groups. Emotions are a collective phenomenon. Happy people tend to cluster with happy people, and unhappy people likewise&#8211;shocking,&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/the-key-observation\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[92,278,102],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-academic-papers","tag-satori","tag-wisdom","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-vE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}