Stephanie Coontz: There is evidence, and i'm sure you're familiar with it, by nicholas cristachus, who runs the human nature lab at yale. He makes an argumentth our social circles influence us greatly in terms of emotions and behaviors,. everything from health to politics, et cetera. And his argument is that really what we think of as the individual is actually much more a compounded result of the e that we know and listen to.
Also: which professions have the happiest people?