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http://www.circlesuniversity.com - Check out Crossroads director Joseph Ohayon's new project - Circles University - an upcoming video course and online environment for anyone who wants to see happiness and success in society and in themselves. ---- http://www.crossroadsfilm.com - Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler discuss researching showing how social networks not only spread behaviors, but also ideas. Caroline Adams Miller discusses research showing how people's behaviors and traits take place in groups. Taken from the film *Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview* by Joseph Ohayon ---- * Watch Crossroads Full Movie » http://youtu.be/5n1p9P5ee3c * Like Crossroads @ Facebook » http://www.facebook.com/XroadsFilm * Follow Crossroads @ Twitter » http://www.twitter.com/XroadsFilm * Share Crossroads » http://www.crossroadsfilm.com/share Use the annotations at the top of the video player to flick through Crossroads' scenes. ---- Transcript of Social Networks: An Analysis There's new research out of Harvard Medical School about social contagion. And I think it's kind of obvious and intuitive that you catch the moods of people around you. But now they're finding that people get fat in groups, they get happy in groups, they quit smoking in groups. --Caroline A. Miller Positive Psychology Social Behaviors & Ideas Networks: Nicholas Christakis and I have been very fortunate to find a resource in the Framingham Heart Study that we never imagined we could find. They were asking people for 32 years: Who are your family members? Where do you work? Where do you live? And most importantly, who are your friends? For the first time, now we have data like this, we are able to get a bird's eye view of networks like the networks that you live in. --James Fowler PhD Social Scientist We had some validated measures of various emotions, including happiness, and what we attempted to show, and were able to show, is that my happiness depends not just on my own actions, thoughts and behaviors, but also on the actions, thoughts and behaviors of the people to whom I'm directly connected, my friends, siblings, spouses, neighbors, coworkers and so forth, and the people to whom they are connected, and the people even to whom they are connected. --Nicholas Christakis MD, PhD Physician and Social Scientist What this finding is showing us is that it's not just behaviors that are spreading through networks, it's also these emotional states that are spreading through networks. So we think that what's spreading is this tendency to transmit ideas, these norms of behavior. James Fowler, PhD Social Scientist