This post is a companion to Emotions Are Contagious: Choose Your Company Wisely, which discusses the process of emotional contagion (EC), a phenomenon in which a person or a group influences the ...

Emotional contagion seems to come more through auditory channels, such as the spoken word. As we become aware of these emotions in the other person or group, each one of us can do our part, by ...

Some encounters leave us inexplicably tired, as if the energy has been literally sucked out of us. This phenomenon could be explained by a very real psychological mechanism: emotional contagion.

The way we carry ourselves, our body language, tone and even unspoken thoughts can influence our environment, shaping interactions and relationships more than we realize. You may have experienced ...

Emotions are contagious, and there is science behind that. And when NC State fans collectively sense something bad is going to happen to one of their teams? It becomes a real, palpable feeling of ...