We will also tell about a study of young Americans and their use of social Web sites on the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

In December, the publication Social Indicators Research reported on a study of activities that help lead to happy lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

The new study shows that happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional virus - a virus people would be happy to catch.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

In December,the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

The results of their study will be published next month in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

"We're proposing that health researchers get involved in projects like housing, like economic development, certainly educational projects, and study the health effects hopefully the health benefits of these complex social, economic interactions.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

And a new study finds those social connections may also help us live longer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a lack of social interactions ranks right up with smoking,obesity, and alcoholism as a risk factor for death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Researchers from Brigham Young University analyzed 148 studies with a total of some 300,000 participants, tracking their social relationships and whether they survived to the end of their particular study, which averaged about seven years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29