emotional contagion
Mood transfers between
Emotional contagion is the phenomenon of emotions spreading from person to person, often unconsciously.
Seeing someone laugh can trigger laughter; being around anxious people can make you anxious.
The effect operates through facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language—we tend to mimic others and then feel what we're mimicking.
The panic spread through the crowd by emotional contagion.
- mirroringReproducing an image identically
- empathySharing another's emotions
- crowd psychologyStudy of group influence
- mass hysteriaShared irrational public fear
- panic attackSudden intense fear episode
groupthink · laughter · nervous laughter · attunement · mob mentality · mob rule · conformity · social bonding · deindividuation · social media · emotional resonance · peer influence · peer pressure · group cohesion · mood · bad mood · synchrony · shared experience
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, love
- digital culturesocial media, memes, hashtags, viral content, influencers
- emotional expressiontone, laughing, mood, yelling, crying
- empathyempathy, sympathy, compassion, kindness, understanding
- influenceinfluence, persuasion, sway, clout, leverage
- social psychologysocial behavior, conformity, social influence, attribution, groupthink