Emotional Contagion - Elaine Hatfield, John T. Cacioppo, Richard L. Rapson, 1993 Skip to
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Abstract recently, we have begun to explore...[the] process of emotional contagion/people's
conscious analyses give them a great deal of information about their social …

Emotional contagion: its scope and limits: Trends in Cognitive Sciences Skip to Main
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This study explored two questions: Do people tend to display and experience other people's
emotions? If so, what impact does power have on people's susceptibility to emotional …

Scholars from a variety of disciplines—neuroscience, biology, social psychology, sociology,
and lifespan psychology—have proposed that primitive emotional contagion is of critical …

Today there are many definitions of empathy. Most clinical and counseling psychologists,
however, agree that true empathy requires three distinct skills: the ability to share the other …

Emotional contagion–the transfer of emotions between people–is thought to occur
automatically. We test the prediction, based on evolutionary psychology, that negative, threat …

Emotional contagion—emotions being linked across people—has captured psychologists'
attention yet little is known about its mechanisms. Early influential treatments focused on …

Contagion is everywhere in the contemporary world. It leaps from body to body, sweeping
through mediatized populations at the speed of a bushfire. No longer confined to local …

= Bodies can catch feelings as easily as catch fire: affect leaps from one body to another,
evoking tenderness, inciting shame, igniting rage, exciting fear–in short, communicable …