We may not need a "study" to tell us we will be healthier and happier if we surround ourselves with family and friends who are happy, but the following article is a good reminder. Remember when we were kids and we sang, "If you're happy and you know, then your face will surely show it?" Smile and read on... Good health can be both the cause and consequence of being happy. That's why two pioneering scientists wanted to see if they could actually measure how happiness works in groups. What they discovered took everyone by happy surprise -- the happiness of others, even those you don't know, has a direct influence on your happiness. The coauthor of this novel study on happiness, James Fowler, PhD, told me how the research was done. First his team combed through the records of 5,000 participants in the Framingham Heart Study, many of whom had identified one another as spouses, friends or neighbors. His team established a happiness baseline for these participants by checking