Comments on: Sad and Ironic Study Says Loneliness Can Be Contagious http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/01/sad-and-ironic-study-says-loneliness-can-be-contagious/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Angie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/01/sad-and-ironic-study-says-loneliness-can-be-contagious/#comment-13945 Angie Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:18:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=6710#comment-13945 I find that an interesting thought, Ieeron. I would tend to assume, that it is easier to find friends, who are lonely (speaking out of my own experience). Did they make me feel lonely though? I don´t think so! Do overweight people make you overweight? I dare say they don´t, because lots of them are on some sort of diet! Those who eat a lot, might actually make you LOSE weight, as the picture of them eating and then putting on (more) weight might get stuck in your head! (No offence, but that explains how come many partners of overweight people are skinny!) But these are just the experiences I have made, so you don´t have to agree with me! I find that an interesting thought, Ieeron. I would tend to assume, that it is easier to find friends, who are lonely (speaking out of my own experience). Did they make me feel lonely though? I don´t think so! Do overweight people make you overweight? I dare say they don´t, because lots of them are on some sort of diet! Those who eat a lot, might actually make you LOSE weight, as the picture of them eating and then putting on (more) weight might get stuck in your head! (No offence, but that explains how come many partners of overweight people are skinny!) But these are just the experiences I have made, so you don´t have to agree with me!

]]> By: leeron http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/01/sad-and-ironic-study-says-loneliness-can-be-contagious/#comment-13944 leeron Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:39:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=6710#comment-13944 In my view, I think the two mentioned results of the research both on obesity and loneliness are confusing. They fail to account for whether fat people are more easier to be friends or whether a fat friend will lead to your obesity, and whether loneliness people more tend to be friends or to be infected by lonesome friends. They just tell us nothing!! In my view, I think the two mentioned results of the research both on obesity and loneliness are confusing. They fail to account for whether fat people are more easier to be friends or whether a fat friend will lead to your obesity, and whether loneliness people more tend to be friends or to be infected by lonesome friends.

They just tell us nothing!!

]]> By: Martin g http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/01/sad-and-ironic-study-says-loneliness-can-be-contagious/#comment-13943 Martin g Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:34:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=6710#comment-13943 Ah yes, nice to see a new ‘ it’s contagious ‘ study . . . Previous examples include contagious happiness, contagious non-smoking, and contagious obesity. And here’s one from 2008, in the BMJ. Proving that acne, headaches and height are contagious - if you frame the data in the right way . . . http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/337/dec04_2/a2533 Ah yes, nice to see a new ‘ it’s contagious ‘ study . . .

Previous examples include contagious happiness, contagious non-smoking, and contagious obesity.

And here’s one from 2008, in the BMJ. Proving that acne, headaches and height are contagious – if you frame the data in the right way . . .

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/337/dec04_2/a2533

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