It is not necessary to have a hundred friends to be happy - the best couple!

The more friends a person has, the more he is unhappy in his heart. Such a paradoxical conclusion the American scientists from the University of Maine.

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The researchers decided to compare the number of friends a person with his own sense of well-being. It turned out that people in public for four years of observation grew with the level of happiness of friends, but with his increasing themselves lucky ... became closed. They began to avoid contact with his many friends, under various pretexts, because I just got tired of the excessive quantity. With the result that a large number of friends   transformed into introverts extraverts.

Thus, researchers have concluded that the opposite, which was originally expected. And saying that it is not necessary to have a hundred rubles, and the need to have a hundred friends, in fact, not true. Number of friends   It should be limited, so you will not have started hiding from them and did not succumb to grief.

Participants in the study, open by nature, eventually ceased to feel the need for furnishing your friends and finding new relationships. And if the number is still growing (for example, through social networks), it is going against the wishes of the person that could hardly enhance its level of happiness.

By the way, in 2012, researchers from Wake Forest University found that introverts feel more happiness, if they begin to act like extroverts. However, subsequent experiments that the findings did not confirm. On the contrary, it turned out that introverts seem very afraid of the people from the pathetic and ridiculous, when they begin to act like extroverts, trying to play the role of the soul of the company. (READ MORE)

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