NEWS
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