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starting in our midfifties: Graham, Carol, and Julia Ruiz Pozuelo. “Happiness, Stress, and Age: How the U-Curve Varies across People and Places.” Forthcoming in the Journal of Population Economics, 30th Anniversary Issue. Journal of Population Economics 30, no. 1 (2017): 611. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-016-0611-2.

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the law of hedonic adaptation: Lyubomirsky, Sonja. “Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences.” In Oxford Library of Psychology: The Oxford Handbook of Stress, Health, and Coping, edited by S. Folkman, 200–204. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Walking gave him:Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1978, 6:113.

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Jane Jacobs’s thesis: Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.

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coaching the Golden State Warriors: Jackson, Phil. Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2006. In our conversations, it was clear that Steve learned a lot about team play from Phil Jackson.

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Flocks of flying birds: Fisher, Len. The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 2007.

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This is true for humans

: Gelfand, Caluori, Jackson, and Taylor. “The Cultural Evolutionary Trade-Off of Ritualistic Synchrony.”

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Cricket teammates whose laughter: Totterdell, Peter. “Catching Moods and Hitting Runs: Mood Linkage and Subjective Performance in Professional Sport Teams.” Journal of Applied Psychology 85 (2000): 848–59. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.85.6.848.

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shared feeling of success: Mukherjee, Satyam, Yun Huang, Julia Neidhardt, Brian Uzzi, and Noshir Contractor. “Prior Shared Success Predicts Victory in Team Competitions.” Nature Human Behaviour 3, no. 1 (2019): 74–81. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0460-y. For an up-close account of this idea of team chemistry, see: Ryan, Joan. Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

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And outside of sports: Chang, Andrew, Steven R. Livingstone, Dan J. Bosnyak, and Laurel J. Trainor. “Body Sway Reflects Leadership in Music Performance.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 21 (2017): E4134–41. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617657114.

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Pittsburgh Steelers fans: Cottingham, Marci. “Interaction Ritual Theory and Sports Fans: Emotion, Symbols, and Solidarity.” Sociology of Sport Journal 29 (2015): 168–85. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.29.2.168.

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“A man with a stern face”: Cottingham. “Interaction Ritual Theory and Sports Fans: Emotion, Symbols, and Solidarity.”

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When European colonialists first traveled: Ehrenreich, Barbara. Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. New York: Holt, 2007.

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A sophisticated answer: Muni, Bharata. Natyasastra: English Translation with Critical Notes, translated by A. Rangacharya. Bangalore: IBH Prakashana, 1986.

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In a study from Brazil: Tarr, Bronwyn, Jacques Launay, Emma Cohen, and Robin Dunbar. “Synchrony and Exertion during Dance Independently Raise Pain Threshold and Encourage Social Bonding.” Biological Letters 11 (2015): 20150767. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0767.

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