Comments on: Catching Happiness: Christakis and Fowler and the Social Contagion of Behaviors http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/09/12/catching-happiness-christakis-and-fowler-and-the-social-contagion-of-behaviors/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mla citations http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/09/12/catching-happiness-christakis-and-fowler-and-the-social-contagion-of-behaviors/#comment-23126 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:19:16 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3868#comment-23126 mla citations…

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]]> By: Bop da http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/09/12/catching-happiness-christakis-and-fowler-and-the-social-contagion-of-behaviors/#comment-22935 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:58:33 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3868#comment-22935 [...] Political scientists Hans Noel and Brendan Nyhan wrote a paper called “The ‘Unfriending’ Problem: The Consequences of Homophily in Friendship Retention for Causal Estimates of Social Influence” in which they argue that the Christakis-Fowler results are subject to bias because of patterns in the time course of friendships. [...]

]]> By: Thinkologist: The Dudley Lynch Blog » Blog Archive » With So Many Unhappy People Around, It’s a Very Apt Time to Think Anew about What Happiness Is and How to Make it Happen. (Even Though All the “Be Happy!” Talk and Techniques Aren̵ http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/09/12/catching-happiness-christakis-and-fowler-and-the-social-contagion-of-behaviors/#comment-7866 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:55 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3868#comment-7866 [...] can cause happiness to be passed from person to person like they were contagious viruses. They got the idea by studying the famed Framingham Heart Study, which started following 15,000 people back in 1948. [...]

]]> By: Blue Swan http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/09/12/catching-happiness-christakis-and-fowler-and-the-social-contagion-of-behaviors/#comment-7460 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:05:33 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3868#comment-7460 This could be the start of a new series of workplace lawsuits. If you were influenced to smoke, drink (or take drugs) by by others because it was he “norm” in a workplace, when you had never had such behaviors prior to working there…

]]> By: Jeffrey L. Peyton http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/09/12/catching-happiness-christakis-and-fowler-and-the-social-contagion-of-behaviors/#comment-7413 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:20:04 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=3868#comment-7413 If this theory is correct, then what are the implications of a social media, a play-based learning language for teaching and learning?

The implications are revolutionary.

A socially driven media and learning language means being able to transform schools into healthy, thriving habitats from the factory farm education our system has unfortunately evolved into.

Play is a form of energy that drives joy and happiness, not merely the mantra of early childhood education. Play is a major research focus of learning science. Play civilizes and humanizes. You can’t teach kids through Play so much as you can reach them through play-based media that touches their hands, hearts, and minds, and opening them to make them more receptive to learning and the world around them.

Want kids to love school? Surround them with play-based media friends a la Puppetools and with the kind of creative thinking they elicit and promote in the young. Want older children to think productively and embody values such as tolerance and empathy? Use media that is socially driven.
Example: http://www.puppetools.com

Want to systemically change our learning culture? Join Play Tectonics—the movement to transform education through play-based communication, and you will join a full blown application of Christaskis and Fowler’s theory.

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