General posts on emotional contagion and how it works
Mistaken as purely a sociological movement, populism’s roots are truly emotional. It is the emotionality in a large segment of the population that drives people to join the populist movement. The emotionality is triggered off by a cause or a perception related to a larger social issue, as the segment sees it. This is often […]
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We are living in an emotional pandemic and have been for a number of years. This means there is a pandemic of emotions. Anxiety and depression are on the rise. It is seen in the world around us, although very few see this connection between society’s trends and the consequential rise in anxiety and depression.
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Emotions, or a more general affect component, can emanate from other people even without their purposely or openly expressing emotion. It is as if they radiate this component automatically as a type of energy that just seems to radiate outward from their body even if they are quiet or still. There is actually movement in
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We see in the news the back-and-forth emotional ping-pong game. When this happens, emotions go back and forth like a ping-pong ball goes back and forth in a ping-pong game. In a ping-pong game, the opposing player automatically hits the ball right back, as hard as possible (sometimes being so hard they hit it awkwardly
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We don’t have to look very far to see that Emotions Don’t Think. Various events where people get emotional and just react automatically are in the news every day. Emotions trigger automatic reactions in people without them thinking about whether their reaction is healthy or proper. They just react. In front of millions of TV
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Did you ever notice how emotions flow through society from person to person, from group to group, because of the effects of emotional contagion? They provide the context and the backdrop for most controversies that hit the news. Emotions are powerful and often determine the outcome of an event, as emotions drive actions. Protests, marches,
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When contagious emotions flow, it is appearance, not the full realities, that count. The appearance, in images and sounds, presents the movement and the pictures from which emotions flow, and which emotional contagion stems from. When it comes to the news, it is the same. It is the images, the color and the sounds in
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Emotions are contagious and can be caught and absorbed by others. This is emotional contagion. It applies not only to openly expressed emotion, but also to implicit emotions, when emotions are experienced within us and not expressed to others openly. They can still be spread to others, subtly or indirectly in voice tone, gestures, and
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Fear runs rampant at these times due to the fear of covid-19 and, for those who want the vaccine, the fear that the vaccine will not be the right one or will wear off. This fear is natural, except that it is irrational. It is natural because we are feeling the after-effects of the epidemic,
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Implicit emotions can become contagious, meaning they can be easily spread and absorbed by others, who are infected by the emotion they have absorbed in turn, often without realizing it. Some of these people may then tend to spread it further, spreading contagious emotions. They are expressed implicitly but in ways which can be felt
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