Recently, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, using a variety of scientific techniques,
have begun to study the influence of attention, facial mimicry, and social context on …

Social interactions can trigger emotional contagion between individuals resulting in
behavioral synchrony. Emotional contagion can be a very effective and attractive strategy in …

Facial mimicry has long been considered a main mechanism underlying emotional
contagion (ie the transfer of emotions between people). A closer look at the empirical …

Emotional contagion has long been conceptualized as the automatic transfer of affective
states between people, similar to the spread of diseases. New evidence, however, has …

The aim was to explore whether emotional empathy is related to the capacity to react with
rapid facial reactions to facial expressions of emotion, and if emotional empathy is related to …

The aim of the present study was to explore whether subiects exposed to stimuli of facial
expressions respond with specific facial muscle reaction patterns that correspond to specific …

In human interactions, frequently one individual becomes 'infected'with emotions displayed
by his or her partner. We tested the predictions by Hatfield et al.(1992)(Primitive emotional …

This study investigates the mechanisms underlying the spread of emotion from one
individual to another. Subjects who were either very high or very low in nonverbal …

In interpersonal encounters, individuals often exhibit changes in their own facial expressions
in response to emotional expressions of another person. Such changes are often called …

Emotional contagion enables individuals to experience emotions of others. This important
empathic phenomenon is closely linked to facial mimicry, where facial displays evoke the …