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1. www.217dance.com
www.217dance.com/150club/turn_ - [Cached]Published on: 3/17/2008 Last Visited: 4/1/2008
Pick up trash in the park or shop for a neighbor who needs help, says William Brown, PhD, a lecturer of psychology at Brunel University, West London. He studied people in Brooklyn and found that those who had a denser social network and gave more to their friends and family than they received-whether the gift was in the form of money, food, advice, or time-reported feeling healthier than others, even when he factored in activity levels.
Another study, at the University of Michigan, looked at 423 elderly married couples; after 5 years, the pairs who were more altruistic were only half as likely to have died. "Many people grow up thinking it's a dog-eat-dog world," Brown says. -
2. Centre for Culture and Evolutionary Psychology (CCEP)
www.brunel.ac.uk/research/cent - [Cached]Published on: 6/15/2008 Last Visited: 6/15/2008
Professor Robin Goodwin and Dr William Brown -
3. www.yourpurebody.com
www.yourpurebody.com/ - [Cached]Published on: 3/17/2008 Last Visited: 6/13/2008
Pick up trash in the park or shop for a neighbor who needs help, says William Brown, PhD, a lecturer of psychology at Brunel University, West London.He studied people in Brooklyn and found that those who had a denser social network and gave more to their friends and family than they received-whether the gift was in the form of money, food, advice, or time-reported feeling healthier than others, even when he factored in activity levels.
Another study, at the University of Michigan, looked at 423 elderly married couples; after 5 years, the pairs who were more altruistic were only half as likely to have died."Many people grow up thinking it's a dog-eat-dog world," Brown says.

