Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, matchmaking is something that far predates the Internet. It's something that has been in every country and every culture for as long as we know. But now as computers and algorithms and websites, like OkCupid and Tinder and match.com, take over the job of setting up matches, there's new research that this might come at a price. NPR's social science correspondent, Shankar Vedantam, is here to explain that price. What is it, Shankar?SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: The price is really to matchmakers, David. I recently came by research by Lalin Anik at Duke University. Along with Michael Norton, she finds that matchmaking is a significant source of happiness for many people. So here's what the researchers did. They examined the happiness of people who reported they like to play matchmaker, and did it a lot, against the happiness levels of people who didn't. And they find that in general, matchmakers are happier than non
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