The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you
The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you
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DOI：
10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0100-1
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发表时间：
2017-05-18
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影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Ruan, Guangchen
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作者：
Bollen, Johan;Goncalves, Bruno;Ruan, Guangchen
社交网络中的大多数人都会经历一种所谓的友谊伙伴关系：平均而言，他们比他们的朋友更不受欢迎。这种效应可以解释最近的研究结果，即广泛使用社交网络媒体会导致幸福感降低。然而，人们对受欢迎程度和幸福感之间的关系知之甚少。友谊悖论并不一定意味着幸福悖论，即大多数人都不如他们的朋友幸福。在这里，我们报告了在一个拥有39，110名Twitter用户的大型在线社交网络中首次直接观察到的重要幸福Parkman。我们的研究结果表明，受欢迎的人确实更快乐，大多数人都经历了一个显着的幸福悖论。后一种效应的大小是由个人受欢迎程度、幸福感以及用户强烈聚集在相似幸福感水平之间的复杂相互作用形成的。我们的研究结果表明，在线社交网络的拓扑结构，结合幸福感在某些人群中的分布，可能与显着的心理社会效应有关。
Most individuals in social networks experience a so-called Friendship Paradox: they are less popular than their friends on average. This effect may explain recent findings that widespread social network media use leads to reduced happiness. However the relation between popularity and happiness is poorly understood. A Friendship paradox does not necessarily imply a Happiness paradox where most individuals are less happy than their friends. Here we report the first direct observation of a significant Happiness Paradox in a large-scale online social network of 39,110 Twitter users. Our results reveal that popular individuals are indeed happier and that a majority of individuals experience a significant Happiness paradox. The magnitude of the latter effect is shaped by complex interactions between individual popularity, happiness, and the fact that users strongly cluster by similar level of happiness. Our results indicate that the topology of online social networks, combined with how happiness is distributed in some populations, may be associated with significant psycho-social effects.