Sentences with phrase «as emotional contagion»

Mogil's lab developed pain grimace scales for rats and mice in 2006, and it discovered that mice experience pain when they see a familiar mouse suffering — a psychological phenomenon known as emotional contagion.

Scientists refer to the surge of good feeling as emotional contagion.

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Researchers found that emotional contagion occurs when the person smiling displays a genuine smile, also known as a Duchenne smile.

Scientists call this emotional contagion (it also happens when someone yawns), and regard it as a basic form of empathy — the ability to experience what someone else is feeling.

If an actor is frightened, our hearts race, and we reach for each other's hands» — a reaction known as «emotional contagion.»

If you're an empathic person, research shows you are more vulnerable to emotional contagion; you'll pick up on a partner, friend or coworker's emotions or physical ailments and experience them as though they are your own.

Multiple research studies on emotional contagion have found that it only takes milliseconds for emotions like enthusiasm and joy, as well as sadness, fear, and anger, to pass from person to person, and this often occurs without either person realizing it (Goleman, 1991, Hatfield et al., 2014).