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Cacippo JT, et al. “Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (in press).

Christakis NA, et al. “The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network,” New England Journal of Medicine (May 22, 2008): Vol. 358, No. 21, pp. 2249–58. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18499567

Christakis NA, et al. “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years,” New England Journal of Medicine (July 26, 2007): Vol. 357, No. 4, pp. 370–79. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17652652

Cohen-Cole E, et al. “Detecting Implausible Social Network Effects in Acne, Height, and Headaches: Longitudinal Analysis,” BMJ Online First (Dec. 4, 2008): Vol. 337, No. a2533. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19056789

Fowler JH, et al. “Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis Over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study,” BMJ Online First (Dec. 4, 2008): Vol. 337, No. 2338. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19056788

Fowler JH, et al. “Estimating Peer Effects on Health in Social Networks: A Response to Cohen-Cole and Fletcher; and Trogdon, Nonnemaker, and Pais,” Journal of Health Economics (Sept. 2008): Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 1400–05. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18692263

Kahneman D, et al. “A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method,” Science (Dec. 3, 2004): Vol. 306, No. 5702, pp. 1776–80. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15576620

Sainsbury P. “Commentary: Understanding Social Network Analysis,” BMJ Online First (Dec. 4, 2008): Vol. 337, No. a1957. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19056787

Steptoe A. “Happiness, Social Networks, and Health,” BMJ Online First (Dec. 4, 2008): Vol. 337, No. a2781. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19056790

“The Framingham Heart Study.” Accessed online at www.framinghamheartstudy.org/participants.

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