In a related vein, consistent with theories
on emotional contagion according to which intimate partners are highly vulnerable to each other's emotions (Goodman and Shippy 2002), it is conceivable that mothers are biased toward negative emotions due to their partners» psychological difficulties, leading mothers to talk more about these emotions with their children.
New Perspectives
on Emotional Contagion: A Review of Classic and Recent Research on Facial Mimicry and Contagion
Individual differences in the effects of spontaneous mimicry
on emotional contagion.
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).
Not exact matches
Facebook harvested users» News Feed interactions to develop a detailed report
on «
emotional contagion,» the ability to manipulate a person's emotions through Facebook.
The study, in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, looked at alcohol's effect
on «
emotional contagion,» basically how easily members of a group pick up
on and share in one another's feelings.
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.
(Remember
emotional contagion: When audiences «see» themselves
on - screen, they feel more connection.)
'' Kathy Sierra
on «happy people» and «
emotional contagion» from Calibrated Vagueness Kathy Sierra has an interesting post about the effect being around happy or unhappy people has
on a person: Angry / negative people can be bad for your brain.
On the basis of the
emotional contagion hypothesis, we thought that effective parental coping among the COPE mothers would lead to better adjustment outcomes for their children.
``... it's just emotion that's taken me over...» — Emotion, Bee Gees The baby books are keen
on discussing «
emotional contagion,» noting that babies, even in utero, can feel your emotions and tend to adopt those same emotions (just to add to our Mommy... Read More
Hypothesis 2: psychopathic personality, measured
on a continuum, correlates negatively with both empathy and
emotional contagion.