Viral behavior

We know very well how important the influence of the people around us is.
There's scientific research on this topic that yields astonishing results.

The Framingham Heart Study has examined the risk factors of heart disease and heart attacks for 32 years.

For example, we consider obesity, one of the most important risk factors.

From the research it emerges that if a friend of yours becomes obese, the probability that you also become it increases by 57%.

If your sister or brother becomes obese, the probability that you too will become by 40%.

The thing also repeats between partners. If your wife or husband began to have problems of obesity, the probability that this happens to you would also increase by 37%.

And here we already have an important confirmation: the influence of friends, or if you like, of the so-called peer group, is much more incisive than the influence of family.

But wait, because now the best comes ...

This type of influence also has effect between people who do not know each other directly.

In practice: if a friend of yours knows a depressed person, the probability of you fall into depression increases. Little, but increases. Even if you don't know this second person personally.

Incredible right? The behaviors seem to be able to spread just as a virus does: to take a cold it is not necessary that I know the original bearer of the virus, I just have to come into contact with a person who in turn came into contact with the original bearer.

The good news is that this works for positive things too, like getting in shape or quitting smoking.

In short, choosing the people we attend really makes the difference in our life.

Do you agree?

Viral behaviors: watch the video

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