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Valuing Social Networks: Are Connections Worth More Than Money?
October 6, 2009
Business Week

Exploring How We Connect, And What It Means
September 25, 2009
NPR (Science Friday)

Is Happiness Catching: The Emerging Science of Social Contagion
September 13, 2009
New York Times Magazine [Front Page]

The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness
September 12, 2009
Wired Magazine

Time 100 Most Influential People in the World
May 1, 2009
Time Magazine

The Dynamics of Personal Influence
February 2009
Harvard Business Review

Genes and the Friends You Make
January 27, 2009
Wall Street Journal

Friendship as a Health Factor
January 23, 2009
Science

Most Original Thinker Award
December 28, 2008
The McLaughlin Group

The Happiness Effect
December 11, 2008
Time Magazine

Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says
December 5, 2008
NYT Health

New Reason to Be Happy: It May Go a Long Way
December 5, 2008 — Front Page
Boston Globe

Your Whole World Smiles With You
December 5, 2008 — Front Page
Los Angeles Times

Happiness Is... Having Happy Friends
December 5, 2008
MSNBC

Happiness Can Spread Among People Like a Contagion, Study Indicates
December 5, 2008
Washington Post

Happiness: It Really Is Contagious
December 5, 2008
NPR

Is Happiness Contagious?
December 5, 2008
ABC News

Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says
December 4, 2008
NYT Health

Cigarettes: Quitting Causes a Chain Reaction
November 25, 2008 — The Year in Medicine 2008
Time Magazine

Culture Can Change Our Genes [Kultur Verändert die Gene]
July 14, 2008
Der Spiegel

Social Networks' Sway May Be Underestimated
May 26, 2008
Washington Post

For Smokers, Quitting May Be Contagious
May 22, 2008
NPR (Morning Edition)

Study Finds Big Social Factor in Quitting Smoking
May 22, 2008
NYT Science

Contagious Suicide [Selbsmord durch Ansteckung]
April 26, 2008
Der Spiegel

A Deep-Rooted Human Desire [Tiefes Menschliches Bedürfnis]
April 11, 2008
Der Spiegel

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
March & April 2008
Hour One: In Sickness and in Wealth (First Broadcast March 27, 2008)
PBS Documentary

On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data
December 17, 2007 — Front Page
NYT College

A to Z Health Guide 2007 - Obesity
December 3, 2007
Time Magazine

Amid Groups of Friends He Looks for Keys to Health
November 12, 2007 (Meeting the Minds)
Boston Globe

You, Your Friends, Your Friends of Friends
August 5, 2007 — Week in Review
NYT Ideas & Trends

Obesity "Contagion" — Ellen Goodman
August 3, 2007
Boston Globe

With Friends Like These
July 27, 2007
Newsweek

Obesity Spreads Through Friends, Family, Study Finds
July 26, 2007
PBS

Obesity 'Socially Contagious'
July 26, 2007
CBS News

Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
July 26, 2007
NPR (Morning Edition)

Can Your Friends Make You Fat?
July 26, 2007
Wall Street Journal

Obesity Spreads In Social Circles As Trends Do, Study Indicates
July 26, 2007 — Front Page
Washington Post

Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends
July 26, 2007 — Front Page
NYT Health

Is Obesity Contagious?
July 25, 2007
CBS News

Sympathy Pounds
July 25, 2007
Business Week

Obesity Is Contagious, Study Finds
July 25, 2007
Time Magazine

Supersize Me—and All My Friends
July 25, 2007
Scientific American

Researchers Find Obesity Can Spread in Social Circles
July 25, 2007
Boston Herald

One's Weight 'Socially Contagious'
July 25, 2007
USA Today

Social Support Shields Spouse from Damage of Caregiving
March 20, 2006
Boston Globe

Spousal Risk of Death Linked to Partner's Hospitalization
February 16, 2006
NPR (Morning Edition)

Study Details Risk of Death for Those Caring for Elderly Spouses
February 16, 2006
NYT Health

Terminally Ill Study
June 19, 2001
NPR (Morning Edition)

A Conversation with Nicholas Christakis: A Doctor with a Cause
November 28, 2000 (profile in Science Times)
NYT Health

The Truth Can Comfort the Dying, a Physician Argues
January 28, 2000
The Chronicle of Higher Education

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