The surprising power of neighborly advice

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5921, 2009, Pages 1617-1619

  Gilbert, Daniel T ^a   Killingsworth, Matthew A ^a   Eyre, Rebecca N ^a   Wilson, Timothy D ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ARTICLE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

AFFECT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 62849108959     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166632     Document Type: Article

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42. We acknowledge the support of research grant BCS-0722132 from NSF to D.T.G. and T.D.W.