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When real conversations happen, people come alive. In an article entitled, the New York Times reported last week that a small research study written up in the journal has claimed to find a correlation between happiness and "substantive conversations." In a sample group of seventy nine college students, a population easy for university psychologists to study, it was determined that the less small talk and the more conversation on matters of depth that these people experienced, the happier they seemed to be, by multiple measures.
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