When people are in a certain mood, whether elated or depressed, that mood is often communicated to others. When we are talking to someone who is depressed it may make us feel depressed, whereas if we talk to someone who is feeling self-confident and buoyant we are likely to feel good about ourselves. This phenomenon, known as emotional contagion, is identified here, and compelling evidence for its effects is offered from a variety of disciplines--social and developmental psychology, history, cross-cultural psychology, experimental psychology, and psychopathology. The authors propose a simple mechanism to account for the process of contagion. They argue that people, in their everyday encounters, tend automatically and continuously to synchronize with the facial expressions, voices, postures, movements, and instrumental emotional behaviors of others. Emotional experiences are affected, moment-to-moment, by the feedback from such mimicry. In a series of orderly chapters, the authors provide observational and laboratory evidence to support their propositions. They then offer practical suggestions for clinical psychologists, physicians, husbands and wives, parents, and professionals who wish to become better at shaping the emotional tone of social encounters.
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The communication of a mood from one person to another is identified as emotional contagion. Compelling evidence for its effects are presented from social and developmental psychology, history, cross-cultural and experimental psychology and psychopathology within this analysis of the phenomenon.
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Emotional contagion is best conceptualized as a multiply determined family of social, psychophysiological, and behavioral phenomena. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vocal feedback hypothesis, emotional contagion scale, conversant awareness, primitive emotional contagion, postural echo, postural mirroring, postural feedback, postural expressions, interaction rhythms, facial feedback, motor mimicry, facial mimicry, subjective emotional experience, corrugator supercilii, somatic activity, peripheral feedback, facial expressiveness, such mimicry, instrumental behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elaine Hatfield, John Cacioppo, University of Hawaii, Facial Expressiveness Scale, Frank Bernieri, James Laird, Jules Feiffer, Paul Ekman, Adam Kendon, Black Death, Desmond Morris, Peter Jennings, Ulf Dimberg, William James New!
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Emotional contagion is best conceptualized as a multiply determined family of social, psychophysiological, and behavioral phenomena. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vocal feedback hypothesis, emotional contagion scale, conversant awareness, primitive emotional contagion, postural echo, postural mirroring, postural feedback, postural expressions, interaction rhythms, facial feedback, motor mimicry, facial mimicry, subjective emotional experience, corrugator supercilii, somatic activity, peripheral feedback, facial expressiveness, such mimicry, instrumental behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elaine Hatfield, John Cacioppo, University of Hawaii, Facial Expressiveness Scale, Frank Bernieri, James Laird, Jules Feiffer, Paul Ekman, Adam Kendon, Black Death, Desmond Morris, Peter Jennings, Ulf Dimberg, William James New!
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